Notes from an Environmentalist.

Microsoft to Restart Three Mile Island {Warning, this is not an Andy Borowitz satire}

            Microsoft to Restart Three Mile Island

      {Warning, this is not an Andy Borowitz satire}         

   Is anyone else concerned that we are spending our infrastructure and inflation fighting money on the wrong things?

Haven’t we learned anything from Chernobyl, Fukushima and Three Mile Island. We still haven’t a clue what to do with nuclear waste that has to be contained for at least ten thousand years.

Yet companies like Microsoft are getting subsidies to restart Three Mile Island and build new modular nuclear reactors, often to fund dubious advances like Chat-bots and artificial intelligence.  

At the same time, proven, safe, clean energy sources like offshore wind are hampered by red tape and manufacturing problems from moving too fast to profit from subsidies.

And haven’t we learned anything from hurricanes like Katrina, Hugo, Maria and now killer storm Helene that dropped more rainfall than any previous storm because hurricanes now unleash trillions more gallons of rain due to global warming.

Yet we are providing subsidies to build seawalls and rebuild homes on collapsing coasts and fragile barrier beaches that will be washed away in the next ten years.

We should be using this time and money to carefully and rationally decide what energy sources to use to guarantee our safe future and how far back from a coast  to live in a stormier, hotter world.