There are lots of people with money. If they want to invest in solar farms = instead of reactors, it's their money and their property. At least they are= n't burning tires or raising pigs. Would you rather live next to a new sola= r farm or a 50 year old reactor? Rust never sleeps. The commercial and military nuclear industry made some big messes, and the = Department of Energy spends $8 billion every year cleaning up old sites lik= e Hanford. Terms like "PC" get thrown around as if those on the other side = are foolish, ignoring the haste and greed that caused the problem in the fi= rst place. Certainly nuclear power could be done safely. But would I trust you to do i= t? Would you trust me? Would any of us trust Windows 10? Your original post had some prickly edges, and I'm trying to sort out what = the intent was, whether you were curious about the economics of solar power= in your area, had environmental concerns, merely feeling NIMBY, or just wa= nted to vent frustrations about the political climate. If we all put a little extra effort into making our posts to the Piclist cl= ear and factual, with some forethought about the responses they might provo= ke, we might be able to keep threads from snowballing into disastrous situa= tions. Thanks, Bob ________________________________________ From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu on behalf of Allen = Mulvey Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 5:08 AM To: 'Microcontroller discussion list - Public.' Subject: RE: [OT] Solar Power That, I think, is much of the problem. We have cheap energy available but it is not PC and everyone is afraid to use it. Allen - --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .