It’s very apparent that our elected officials support the “underdog” green movement to wind and solar electricity, and have successfully gotten the votes to continue that crusade. Replacing Diablo Canyon’s 2160 megawatts of nuclear power that services about 1.7 million homes, will place more demand on fossil fuels, as “green intermittent” electrical power has difficulty serving commercial 24/7 usage demands.

America’s $18-trillion industrial economy cannot be powered with windmills and solar paneling unless we can transcend the four laws of thermodynamics, the application of which put man on the moon, led to micro-processors, semiconductors, and innumerable technological breakthroughs that have extended of life spans and improved human life across the world.

Green electrical energy policies are a gamble, even though electricity renewables may supplant fossil fuels with energy scarcity, economic decline, physical suffering, and decline in the chemical ingredients from fossil fuels that are part of everything in our economy, and increased geopolitical vulnerability. The German and British green mandates have demonstrated that wind and solar electrical energy are incapable of performing the tasks that fossil fuels have easily handled on a vast scale in modern industrial economics. German and British consumers now face electric rates two to three times the average American retail rate, while industries (and jobs) flee to countries with affordable electricity.

Japan has turned to coal fired power plants to fill the electrical energy gap left by the closure of dozens of nuclear power plants in the wake of the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi in March 2011. All but two reactors remain offline while they undergo safety checks, while potential reactor restarts have encountered strong opposition from residents concerned about the facilities’’ vulnerability to powerful earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. Further delays on restarting reactors will keep the coal fired power plant online. Thus, Japan is planning a major expansion in coal-fired power plants with 10 projects with 7500MW of capacity planned within 200 kilometers of Tokyo, and 15 projects with 6500MW of capacity that are planned around Osaka and Hyogo.