Now Its As Easy As One-Two-Three

You've got to wonder if the No. 1, post-haste, urgent-urgent-urgent thing we need to do to overcome climate change is to just make a map -- and then follow it.

Map out the places where wind and solar farms are possible and practical, and then -- and this is where the following-the-map thing comes in -- create what they keep calling "infrastructure." In this case, that means cable lines to carry the energy from the wind and solar farms to all the places where the people are screaming and crying for electricity.

See, right now all those cables start at the power plants. You already figured that part out, right? So you don't just say replacing fossil-fuel plants is as easy as one-two-three: knock the coal plant down in one location, and built the wind farm in another.

When you switch to nuclear, and David Gates -- I mean Bill Gates -- is helping us do just that, you can simply replace the coal plant with a nuclear facility, right there at the very same spot. All your wiring -- all that cabling -- remains in place, ready to whisk away the energy to the valley people below. But, when you speak of wind farms and solar farms, they usually are not built at the same location as the coal plant you are getting rid of.

New energy location, new set of cables, then. Its as easy as one-two-three. Building the solar farm is the two, and knocking down the coal plant is the three. but this time you don't skip over the one: You lay cables to the solar farm. First things first.

Now and only now is it as easy as one-two-three.

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