If we can just stay on--just because I have limited time. I don't mean to interrupt. I don't mean to be rude.

Now, I am struck that you mentioned the subsidies, the heightened or continued subsidies for wind and solar and other renewables.

But will it be adequate to say power in Washington, D.C., if we have windmills turning and the wind stops to blow or the night comes or the cloudiest day, will it have sufficient capacity to power Washington, D.C.?

My concern is--because obviously others have attempted to do this, so there is a renewable energy magazine, 'Renewable Power News,' which is kind of an advocacy group for renewable power.

Today, I would like to express my strong support for the nominations of Scott Gration and Michelle Gavin.

Now, my concern, though, is is that we are racing ahead, but there are certain laws of physics.

In effect, there is going to be a postmortem done on that accident and folks are going to go in there and see what went wrong.

Now, let me ask because when I toured the nuclear power plant near my home--I am from Louisiana so it is the River Bend Nuclear Power Plant--and as I recall they were coming up with a failsafe mechanisms to keep the generators running even…

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