Prohibitively higher.

It is not only higher, it is massively higher.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

It is relatively low cost in terms of the benefit.