To win the 21st century, the US must adopt a strategy to become the world’s undisputed heavyweight energy producers. President Trump has placed America on the path of energy dominance by removing the sanctions of biden-era on liquefied natural gas and oil, reopening federal land for drilling, and paving the way for renaissance in American nuclear power.
Getting energy dominance is not only about making energy cheaper. It is also important to meet the demand that is growing at an exponential rate.
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is promoting this energy demand. AI is not just a device; It is a game-chain, which is ready to highlight a wave of productivity, ignite innovation and supercharged efficiency. The leading AI is not just about the technical edge – it is the basis of the future of America as a global economic power plant.
If we are to win the AI race, we should be able to give it strength. And the demand for AI computing places on our energy supply is extreme.
By 2030, the rapid development of AI data centers is ready to contribute to a shocking25 percent spike in American electricity demandThis number can be around 78 percent by 2050.
A cool assessment of America’s energy demands suggests that we cannot renew our future. An incredible source of intermittent production base load power by wind and solar renewal. Then there is the economics of adopting green energy solutions, which is unqualified for the absent rich government subsidy to date. President Trump has “called Green Tax Credit to be”Huge scam,
Perhaps the most important thing, widely adopting renewable energy will help China mainly, which has seized major positions in solar panels and electric battery technology and manufacturing, while controlling access to the rare earth content required for these technologies.
Trump has called for ending green energy madness and has removed huts on traditional energy sources. But even more than this, he has also indicated the Renaissance of nuclear power, an industry that was marginalized for decades.
Trump has promised to quadruple American nuclear capacity through a series by 2050.Executive orderRules and speed are designed to streamline the approval. It could not come soon.
As new construction came in AmericaStop for more than 30 yearsOur foreign contestants carried forward the next generation of nuclear power. Since 2010, when China matched our total power generation, it has been added2 terravatFor its grid every five years, while the US production was flat.
To compete, we must increase power generation at a rate that can only be obtained by rapid construction of atomic reactors. And we will not reach there after going slow or studying the problem.
Like the efforts of the governmentAdvanced Reactor Performance Program Their place is to develop new nuclear technology. Trump started that attempt in 2020, but like many government research projects, it has fallenbehind scheduleAnd goneover budget,
Those programs that were anticipated to start power generation in early 2005 are late, in part because they use onefuel typeProduced only in Russia. It became a real problem in 2022.
Like so many government research programs, unaware of the objectives of difficult performances, these programs take into account even in the absence of tangible results and prolong the funding flow. One of the methods they have done, by submitting the remarks of the report, something that is not legally necessary, to streamline the future application, unstable.
And when it can help those projects under the road, meanwhile those reports consume years of regulatory resources, as the Atomic Regulatory Commission regulators – already drowned in thin -paperwork.
Then the question is whether government money is really necessary to develop this technique – a suitable question for a administration that is committed to cutting government waste. The industry has displayed that this capital can raise, of course when Trump has demonstrated its commitment to nuclear power.
America’s energy on nuclear research programs will not be able to cut it in future. We will never meet the President’s goal of quadrupling nuclear power production in 25 years if one -third time is spent spending a new reactor from the drawing board.
America’s energy-intensive future requires a fast and repeated approval process for nuclear power. We now need to start manufacturing new plants.
Trump was earlier below this road. If he accepts the conservative about new drug approval, we are still looking for a vaccine for Kovid -19, studying the problem as if the world separated. To meet the challenge of our growing energy demands, we need an operation taunting speed for nuclear power.
Now, until then, the solution is coming out of the way out of the government and allows the private sector to be renewed and creating.
John Czwartack, former advisor to the White House Office of Management and Budget, is the co-founder and principal of the public policy solution.
