Wind solar or nuclear

Over the years republicans have labeled democrats as tax and spend and thus the headline about the new bill, Senate Democrats are aiming to pass a major spending bill this week that includes funding for climate change, health care and tax increases on corporations, is appropriate. The bill called the Inflation Reduction Act was passed without informing the whole senate on what was happening and Senator Sinama expressed surprise. Late last year President Biden signed an executive order to boost America’s clean energy economy, which included the goal of attaining 100% carbon pollution-free electricity by 2030. The Act includes billions for solar panel companies and wind farms. The US currently gets 9% of its electricity from wind and 3% from solar while fossil fuels provide 60% and nuclear 20%. U.S. has 102.9 gigawatts of total solar installed capacity which is equivalent to 965 square miles, roughly the size of the country’s smallest state, Rhode Island. In order to up the current 3% to 100% requires 965 divided by .03 or 32,000 sq miles or the size of South Carolina. It would take 112,000 sq miles for wind. Using nuclear power requires only 1,200 sq miles. Wind and solar are miles away from the usage point and require miles of power lines whereas nuke plants are close to the use point. Here is one example of what happened the last time the government sent money to solar companies. Solyndra received a $535 million U.S. Department of Energy loan guarantee, the first recipient of a loan guarantee under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus program, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. In less than five years Solyndra was broke because they could not compete with panels made in China. Is the government making the same mistake.