@Npars01@mstdn.social @GottaLaff@mstdn.social
And battery-making capacity.
As one has to retire gas, and (particularly) coal and other fossil-fuel plants, base-load capacity needs to shift to nuclear or battery-farms. Even were one to do away with all environmental-impact and related red tape, getting new nuclear capacity online is an even tougher row to ho than more coal.
Even if the US had the factories to churn out base-load capacity, they don't have the minerals. China has those. Antagonizing China to where they (have) cut off those minerals leaves you with just fossil fuels and nuclear (US's natural deposits of nuclear fuels ain't exactly great, either). So, perhaps the antagonism of China is a pretext for a resurgence in fossil fuels.
That's 4D chess, though, so it's not coming from Herr #Trumpler's atrophied brain.