Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

Let's make this a 'can.' We really do need those 30 gigawatts; we really do need these jobs.

The scale of this is really pretty staggering. The figure I use is zeta joules, the joule being the unit of measure of heat energy, zeta bei...

So it is really a dramatic effect. And it is not just a fraction of our fossil fuel energy expenditure, it is a vast multiple.

I think there is a persistent effort to limit our effort to support wildlife and hold off the great extinction to only what can be monetized...