Y'all project a lot of ideology on to straightforward engineering problems

Solar on buildings, nukes on the grid, liberal use of batteries, this isn't difficult

The electrical grid, broader energy infrastructure, and everything downstream of it is optimized for things other than maximum utility to the public paying for it

I think the public would be cool with a commission of academics certifying the safety of reactors on a fast track

I know the public would be cool with huge battery and solar subsidies

I am certain the scientific community wouldn't mind a 5x'd DoE budget

Business is gonna love the ridiculously cheap electricity, and you could maybe even bribe the public with a fixed price that the govt pays *to the owner of the panel* to charge govt batteries

That pretty much covers the relevant constituencies, so would this really be that hard?

You could definitely get the military involved as an energy producer, they make naval reactors already, why not stick eight or ten on a cargo ship and moor it wherever is useful?

Literally everybody except a narrow slice of financial interests benefits from us doing this

This isn't some futurist bullshit, it's barely more sophisticated than what France does today

You cannot tell me that French institutions are more capable of solving this *straightforward engineering problem* than the people who invented the reactor in the first place?

We don't even need to do the thorium thing anytime soon, there's plenty of uranium in Canada, which might even be more geopolitically sound than lignite from West Virginia or whatever

Most of the nuclear waste we've made can be reprocessed, and used as fuel again

There is now a clear pitch to middle America:

Regardless of your opinions on how bad global warming might be, the weather is getting objectively worse and solar/batteries/nukes will be categorically superior on *reliability during bad weather and cost alone* to what we have now

I get the feeling that everybody in government is open to the idea of bribing people after how bad they've fucked up this pandemic, and they're printing a shitload of money

Direct that firehose at something productive for once and buy everybody solar panels and a grid that works

It should be made clear to people that we're not going to ban gas cars, or propane, or heating oil, or whatever other domestic uses of fossil fuel they're accustomed to

If we can focus a bunch of resources on achieving too-cheap-to-meter the downstream economics will sort it out