The ClearPath team is on a mission to tackle one very tangled question: “How do we make our energy sector cleaner AND more reliable, while making our economy and country stronger?” What we’ve found and begun to document here illuminate the at-times disconcerting and outrageous realities and obstacles, but also some very hopeful signs that the U.S. and the world can progress towards a cleaner and more prosperous future. Join our team of experts on our soapboxes below.
Imagine you’re a nuclear entrepreneur, like Jack Devanney, with a world-beating idea. Jack had built 440,000-ton oil tankers, and realized that he could cheaply build nuclear plants just like he’d built those tankers: in a shipyard assembly line. So he created ThorCon. But before building his first plant to test the idea, Jack faced a choice.
For the longest time, the left has owned this debate; calling for wind and solar, battery storage and energy efficiency. These technologies are a growing part of our energy mix but will only be a portion of our future supply. A cleaner energy future must be based on nuclear, hydropower and clean fossil fuels – workhorses that provide reliable baseload electric power 24/7.
I want conservatives to be leaders on clean energy – from nuclear to hydropower to clean fossil fuels – both to make the environment better and strengthen real conservative leadership.
