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There are multiple reliable energy breakthroughs underway that can actually keep up with America's demand, Energy Secretary Chris Wright tells me. He gave an inside look at the massive shifts Trump is implementing for our future: “Next-generation geothermal is coming. We got a 500-megawatt plant under construction in Utah,... mining the heat underneath your feet. President Trump set aggressive agendas in May of last year to say we're going to get three next-generation nuclear reactors critical by July 4th. We had four reactors critical by July 4th and another one coming soon. We'll be getting electricity in remote areas from nuclear reactors by the end of next year, and a meaningful amount of it by 2028. We've got all sorts of gas turbines under construction. We've got [a] new pipeline to bring low-cost natural gas to communities… So there is cool stuff coming in energy technology.”show more

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Scotty Fifer1 month ago

On power All these years of letting water just go out into the ocean. We never thought of reservoirs and canals even Piping To store flood water and use it in the farm lands and for consumption. Easy concept, yet easier to blame something not a human can control, climate, weather. GodRocks It’s that easy to fix. Lmao that is relinquishing control, the freeways, power grids. All can be taken out by our own. And Biden did utter words to such avail. GodRocks

Kathy Smith1 month ago

@SecretaryWright Least he’s knowledgeable & honest about the prospects coming up Gotta get your hands on one of those Mod’s Glenn 😁💪🏼

Justin Moore1 month ago

@SecretaryWright Here we go with the Republican “clean energy play”

Laura Leslie1 month ago

@SecretaryWright Glenn, how about suggesting to Trump to get our 💡 INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULBS 💡back!!!!! May seem like a small issue but the average home owners I know want them back. I say NO to LED in my house.

Chris Schembari1 month ago

@SecretaryWright Mr. Secretary, we need thorium MSRs. You can put factory-made MSRs in every nuclear power plant storing "spent" uranium waste and use it as fuel. @FlibeEnergy @kirksorensen

FRPGoat1 month ago

@SecretaryWright Let China keep building their coal plants, nuclear is the way to go

Ann N . 🇺🇸1 month ago

@RoxeneKres2437 @SecretaryWright Tesla walls and solar panels is best that’s available now ..

kevin espeseth1 month ago

@SecretaryWright ...and start using HP!!! that is 40 HP (+,-, with efficiency/heat loss).

CPegasus1 month ago

@SecretaryWright Interesting narrative but OLD thinking. Ask @realDonaldTrump about his uncles knowledge of TESLA free energy.

Bob Cowan1 month ago

@SecretaryWright 👍

Chris Schembari1 month ago

@SecretaryWright Google keeps showing me ads for a company in western Canada offering "natural hydrogen", which is apparently buried deep underground just like natural gas. I think the formation is in Saskatchewan and Alberta, and the company claims that they have a lot of it.

Robert | Crypto Analyst1 month ago

@SecretaryWright Nghe tin này vui thật đấy, nhưng không biết bao giờ giá điện mới giảm để dân mình đỡ đau ví nhỉ?

Derrick Dao1 month ago

@SecretaryWright Four reactors hitting criticality beats the whole prior decade — genuinely real. But it's single-digit gigawatts against datacenter load that adds that every few months. Right direction, wrong scale.

Milinda Muller1 month ago

@SecretaryWright Bill gates-backed nuclear company. 🤔

kevin espeseth1 month ago

@SecretaryWright Money, is like water. Does -any- "Admin." understand just how GREAT a step it is to go from a 8 Hr -labor- day (to provide secure living structure) to a 2 person, 16 hour, labor to support -even 3-??? There needs to be a lot of floating material, to not have to swim 24/7!

Lola1 month ago

@SecretaryWright How about garbage incinerators that produce electricity? Let's get rid of all the China garbage and keep it out of out landfills!

Mike McDermott1 month ago

@SecretaryWright We need to bring back nuke plants.

3secondsapart1 month ago

@SecretaryWright Stop wasting it. 🙈👨🏻‍🎓🌎

CATholic DOGma Rescue & Retvrn1 month ago

@SecretaryWright The safe, small scale nuclear reactors are the way to go. Some are the size of a fridge, yet can power large complexes

marianne flynn1 month ago

@SecretaryWright Love it Thank you from the American People ❤️❤️❤️

Sassyb500 🦅🇺🇸1 month ago

@SecretaryWright Excellent news! Just kill all solar and wind farm proposals. They’re fraudulent from start to…, well they never seem to finish.

johnah1 month ago

@SecretaryWright Why don’t require a small nuclear reactor for every data center? It would solve lots of issues and put us in a technological leadership role.

John Dichiara1 month ago

@SecretaryWright GB I just lost a lot of respect for your intellect. Put in a phone call into Elon Musk. He’ll set you up a solar plant with batteries. That’s all you need. It’s expensive initially but afterwards the sun is FREE.

Maybe1 month ago

@SecretaryWright Solar. Just solar.

TheWoodedOne1 month ago

Nuclear is a bright shiny object to be sure. But we need to know IN DEPTH how its inherent AND non-inherent risks will be mitigated. I am not signing off with my vote until we see that. And you all should demand the same. The research that I have done leads to an acceptable mechanical safety margin (natural disasters etc). But I am stuggling with any sound mitigation measures for a non-inherent threat like cyber.

The Flow Insight1 month ago

@SecretaryWright The discussion is gradually shifting from choosing one energy source to expanding total generating capacity. Meeting future electricity demand will likely require multiple technologies moving forward at the same time.

carolina girl south1 month ago

@SecretaryWright What are they going to do with the nuclear waste, like the waste the USA left buried in Greenland Ice? Nuclear power is a danger to humanity.

TheMillionGunMarch1 month ago

@SecretaryWright It's time!

Rusty Shackleford1 month ago

@SecretaryWright 💪👑💪

NewEarth1 month ago

@SecretaryWright

Jeremiah David1 month ago

@SecretaryWright

Tha Duece1 month ago

@SecretaryWright I hope you know once enough ppl are off grid they will tax the energy you generate just like places are putting meters on ppls well water systems lol

TopperSuiter1 month ago

@SecretaryWright

Dave Lee1 month ago

@SecretaryWright NO BODY ever talks about Energy Conservation !?!?!?

Mark Newman1 month ago

@SecretaryWright Awesome! Btw-

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VP VANCE PREDICTED: PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GET ANGRY, AND RIGHTFULLY SO "This stuff we can and we should prosecute, and I'm just telling you, this is going to be a real problem, and the people are going to get really pissed at Senate Republicans if we don't have the U.S. attorneys on the ground to actually achieve justice. People are going to get angry, and rightfully so." If you want justice, you've got to empower the President of the United States to actually appoint the officers of justice all over the country. The Democrats are stalling that, and we're going to wake up in a couple of years, if we don't have more U.S. attorneys approved, if we don't have more judges approved, we're going to wake up in a couple of years and realize that we've done a lot of great work at the Trump administration, but justice is not being meted out as it should be because we don't have the people on the ground. That is a big problem, and I know that's somewhat unrelated to Arctic Frost, but it actually is related to Arctic Frost, because you cannot get the justice for the people who are targeted by the Biden administration unless we've got good people, especially in these U.S. attorneys offices, and that's something we've got to pay attention to over the next year. Spying on President Trump, prosecuting him, investigating senators, congressmen, and congressmen who are just aligned with the President of the United States some of this stuff is going to get covered by statute of limitations, but some of this stuff we can and we should prosecute, and I'm just telling you, this is going to be a real problem, and the people who watch your show are going to get really pissed at Senate Republicans, excuse my language, if we don't have the U.S. attorneys on the ground to actually achieve justice, people are going to get angry, and rightfully so. If you want justice, you've got to empower the President of the United States to actually appoint the officers of justice all over the country. The Democrats are stalling that, and we're going to wake up in a couple of years, if we don't have more U.S. attorneys approved, if we don't have more judges approved, we're going to wake up in a couple of years and realize that we've done a lot of great work at the Trump administration, but justice is not being meted out as it should be because we don't have the people on the ground. That is a big problem, and I know that's somewhat unrelated to Arctic Frost, but it actually is related to Arctic Frost, because you cannot get the justice for the people who are targeted by the Biden administration unless we've got good people, especially in these U.S. attorneys offices, and that's something we've got to pay attention to over the next year. Spying on President Trump, prosecuting him, investigating senators, congressmen, and congressmen who are just aligned with the President of the United States some of this stuff is going to get covered by statute of limitations, but some of this stuff we can and we should prosecute, and I'm just telling you, this is going to be a real problem, and the people who watch your show are going to get really pissed at Senate Republicans, excuse my language, if we don't have the U.S. attorneys on the ground to actually achieve justice, people are going to get angry, and rightfully so.

VP VANCE PREDICTED: PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GET ANGRY, AND RIGHTFULLY SO "This stuff we can and we should prosecute, and I'm just telling you, this is going to be a real problem, and the people are going to get really pissed at Senate Republicans if we don't have the U.S. attorneys on the ground to actually achieve justice. People are going to get angry, and rightfully so." If you want justice, you've got to empower the President of the United States to actually appoint the officers of justice all over the country. The Democrats are stalling that, and we're going to wake up in a couple of years, if we don't have more U.S. attorneys approved, if we don't have more judges approved, we're going to wake up in a couple of years and realize that we've done a lot of great work at the Trump administration, but justice is not being meted out as it should be because we don't have the people on the ground. That is a big problem, and I know that's somewhat unrelated to Arctic Frost, but it actually is related to Arctic Frost, because you cannot get the justice for the people who are targeted by the Biden administration unless we've got good people, especially in these U.S. attorneys offices, and that's something we've got to pay attention to over the next year. Spying on President Trump, prosecuting him, investigating senators, congressmen, and congressmen who are just aligned with the President of the United States some of this stuff is going to get covered by statute of limitations, but some of this stuff we can and we should prosecute, and I'm just telling you, this is going to be a real problem, and the people who watch your show are going to get really pissed at Senate Republicans, excuse my language, if we don't have the U.S. attorneys on the ground to actually achieve justice, people are going to get angry, and rightfully so. If you want justice, you've got to empower the President of the United States to actually appoint the officers of justice all over the country. The Democrats are stalling that, and we're going to wake up in a couple of years, if we don't have more U.S. attorneys approved, if we don't have more judges approved, we're going to wake up in a couple of years and realize that we've done a lot of great work at the Trump administration, but justice is not being meted out as it should be because we don't have the people on the ground. That is a big problem, and I know that's somewhat unrelated to Arctic Frost, but it actually is related to Arctic Frost, because you cannot get the justice for the people who are targeted by the Biden administration unless we've got good people, especially in these U.S. attorneys offices, and that's something we've got to pay attention to over the next year. Spying on President Trump, prosecuting him, investigating senators, congressmen, and congressmen who are just aligned with the President of the United States some of this stuff is going to get covered by statute of limitations, but some of this stuff we can and we should prosecute, and I'm just telling you, this is going to be a real problem, and the people who watch your show are going to get really pissed at Senate Republicans, excuse my language, if we don't have the U.S. attorneys on the ground to actually achieve justice, people are going to get angry, and rightfully so.

Svetlana Lokhova

254,370 views • 8 months ago