Nuclear power is not green and Bill Gates is heavily invested in it.

Anne and I are leaving Chicago tomorrow for our annual week with our family on Block Island, an hour ferry ride from Port Judith, Rhode Island.

My postings will be intermittent.

Block Island’s wind farm.

For years we rented a house on the island just across the road from the electric plant. It was noisy.

The electric plant is no longer running and there is no noise. Block Island’s electric power is provided by five giant wind turbines, among the largest off the coast in the United States. It also provides power to the mainland.

It is green energy. The kind we need more of if we are really going to have an impact on climate change.

On this week’s podcast of Hitting Left with Mike Klonsky and Friends I was a guest. One of the topics was how billionaire Bill Gates helped broker the Inflation Reduction Act by working out a deal that gave West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin some of the fossil fuel protections he wanted.

But Gates wasn’t acting altruistically. There are plenty of tax breaks in the bill for the nuclear industry and Gates is heavily invested in nuclear.

I’ve been around for Fukushima, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island.

When did we decide nuclear power was green?

A few years ago, Public Citizen put out a publication explaining how nuclear was not green. Not much has changed since then.