{"id":709,"date":"2025-06-18T10:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T10:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2025-06-20T19:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T19:17:54","slug":"dont-overlook-the-nuclear-option-in-the-climate-change-fight-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/audiomateria.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/dont-overlook-the-nuclear-option-in-the-climate-change-fight-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t overlook the nuclear option in the climate change fight (Letters)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t overlook the nuclear option<\/h4>\n

Re:\u00a0\u201cNew laws on turf, wild horses, clean energy<\/a>,” June 11 news story<\/p>\n

Among many issues in this article, of note is House Bill 1040, which adds nuclear energy to be counted toward utilities’ clean-energy goals and eligible for financing set aside for clean energy.<\/p>\n

Although most environmentalists are opposed to nuclear energy, it is capable of providing large quantities of reliable electrical energy while generating little greenhouse gas emissions. Wind and solar energy are great, but are subject to variations throughout the day and year. How will solar and wind generate enough electricity to get us through a polar vortex that engulfs the Front Range and Midwest into deep, prolonged cold, especially after gas-fired furnaces are replaced with electrically driven heat pumps?<\/p>\n

Climate change is a huge crisis, and we need to explore every alternative we can to mitigate it. This includes nuclear power for reliable energy and the mining of lithium needed to make batteries to store electricity produced by wind and solar.<\/p>\n

Rich Griffin,\u00a0Aurora<\/em><\/p>\n

Fascism in America<\/h4>\n

“Fascism: a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition.”\u00a0 \u2013 Merriam-Webster<\/p>\n

I avoid name-calling, especially when politics are involved, believing that the 170,000 commonly used English language words should be sufficient to provide description and to be less provocative. So I use the word \u201cfascism\u201d not to provoke nor as a school-yard taunt. I am, however, at a loss to explain the difference between the definition of fascism and the actions of the current administration, which took an oath to uphold the dictates of the Constitution of the United States of America.<\/p>\n

Dona Chilcoat, Lakewood<\/em><\/p>\n

Another owl under threat right here in Colorado<\/h4>\n

In the 1980s, rampant cutting of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest led to the listing of the Northern Spotted Owl as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Here in Colorado, it is little known that the Mexican Spotted Owl,\u00a0the southern cousin of the Northern Spotted Owl and also listed as federally threatened, makes its home in Colorado.<\/p>\n