Angus King

Unless we control the methane that is released in the extraction of natural gas, its carbon benefit virtually disappears.

I miss 100 percent of the shots I don't take.

I’m skeptical of it because I don’t know where it stops.

Prohibitively higher.

It is not only higher, it is massively higher.

The problem is the bankers or the people that finance, they want their money back, maybe not in three years, but they want it back in sooner than 40 years.

I appreciate that, and that is why I emphasized that I think demonstration projects, R&D, additional support for the new technologies that can bring that cost down.

Nuclear power just is not remotely competitive economically in terms of new plants.

They essentially discriminate against any capital-intensive energy farm. They make natural gas pretty much the only alternative.

Well, I think water is a lot better than CO2. So I appreciate that technology.

Seventy-five percent of the Arctic ice has melted in the last 40 years and that's in terms of volume.

I think it is important that we realize that all these things are connected.

Part of what's driving the crisis at our border is the COVID impact in those countries, trans-national criminal activity which is gangs.

It would actually have the impact of lowering transmission and distribution costs for all consumers because you would be using more kilowatt-hours on the same infrastructure.

There is no free lunch in energy; everything has costs and benefits and they need to be carefully calculated

I would like you to do the calculation that I asked you to do because nuclear is unbelievably expensive, multiples of anything else.

I consider the gas pipeline infrastructure part of the grid because of the dependency in New England.

I would like you to do that calculation again, for this Committee, if all of that capacity and energy came from new nuclear power.

I would urge you to do so too. I don't think it would hurt to have multiple, because the grid is probably one of the primary targets in terms of a catastrophic cyberattack.

It is relatively low cost in terms of the benefit.

Of course, a molecule of CO2 does not care what country it comes from, as far as its impact on the climate.

But the grid of the future does not necessarily involve lots of new wires and poles. It may involve more of the technology of integrating resources.

Methane, I believe, is the low-hanging fruit of climate change.

The only thing worse than fighting with your allies is fighting without your allies.

We have allies and China has customers.