What can nuclear do:

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One of the unspoken myths of anti-nuclear sentiment is that "the free market has generated enough energy" or that "gasoline and natural gas meet our energy needs" which is farther from the truth.  Everywhere around the world, including in the US and Texas, THERE IS NOT ENOUGH ENERGY BEING PRODUCED.  This is due to several factors:

• Growing populations from birth and immigration 
• Increasing energy requirements for technology: data centers, Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT, bitcoin
• Inelastic energy storage: natural gas tanks, solar and wind battery farms, weather impacts

The energy mix in the United States comprises 60% fossil fuels including gasoline, diesel, and natural gas. The world has been producing climate changing gasses for over 100 years.  We are heading toward a cliff and "taking our foot off the proverbial gas pedal" is not going to stop us from going over.  We need to pivot, turn towards an alternative source to "replace" this growing "60%" from fossil fuels. 

If we don't act now, the answer will be given to us when its inconvenient: when we run out of gas.  Peak oil is not a theory, Texas has already gone through it.  Ask why we are fracing oil right now instead of pumping it out of the ground-- its because we ran out in the 1980's and until 2006 Texas experienced an economic depression.  

At the present moment, every house or appliance that we plug into the wall outlet means somewhere in the world an additional fraction of an oil barrel has to be pumped out of the ground.  We can barely address current energy demands, let alone additional demands.  Projects such as:

• Recycling
• Desalination
• Fusion, road to Fusion
• Hydrogen Production

The current "market" does not favor these activities because of how much power is required to perform these actions.  It is almost always cheaper to dig raw ore and make a product than recycle it because the act of recycling includes the first part and adds on top of it the processes of reduction, separation, cleaning, and further reprocessing.  This cost is translated into additional barrels of oil or natural gas needed to perform, but with an infinite amount of nuclear energy available we can under cut these costs.

There is not a plan in the public space that feasibly addresses "how to get rid of the Climate Changing causing gases in the atmosphere right now." Nuclear can produce the energy to fuel processes such as:

• converting CO2 into gasoline
• Carbon air scrubbers

A process exists that takes CO2 from the air and turns it into gasoline.  We think of air as the normal and don't think about it, but in reality the atmosphere exerts 14 pounds of force per square inch. CO2 in the air is "pressed down" into surface water like a SodaStream, creating carbonic acid and changing the chemistry of our oceans. 

Just like obtaining fresh water and hydrogen from sea water by running a high amount of electrical current is feasible, we can also separate this carbonic acid from the water.  If you go into an Autozone and look at all the shelves of products, if you read the labels you'll see they're all almost the same.  Oil and Petroleum products are just carbon chains.  Methane is CH4, Butane is C4H10, Octane in gasoline is C8H18. We can

• Keep our current refining infrastructure
• Separate Carbonic acid 
• Stitch the molecules into the products we need
• Continue to fuel our economy and human activity like normal

And this is done 

1) truly carbon neutral (the power comes from nuclear) 

2) produce clean products without carcinogens and sulfur 

3) not rely on gimmicks such as lithium batteries which there is not enough of to meet 2035/2050 combustion vehicle bans 

It is not enough to address the needs on earth.  To answer our needs as a species we must push the limits of human exploration and nuclear plays an important role. How nuclear can help space travel:

• Propulsion: thermonuclear rockets can reduce costs and speed to get to planets like Mars by reducing fuel and weight requirements.
• Energy Generation: nuclear reactors on spacecraft, space stations, and ground bases can produce the required intensive energy to do processes on earth such as mining, manufacturing, sustaining life support.  The farther you get from earth, the power of a prefabricated solar panel decreases not linearly but quadratically.  
• Treating Cancers. Once you leave the safety of Earth's ionosphere, you are the target for the universe's vast radiation.  Treating cancers will be a key component to healthcare both on earth and in space.  Byproducts of nuclear power production include rare elements which are used in intensive cancer treatment.
• Radiothermal Generators (RTGs). Voyager II left Earth in 1985 and is still transmitting information to earth beyond the edges of the solar system.  This is only possible due to RTGs that keep it powered.  These RTGs depend on byproducts of the nuclear power process and are in limited supply.  The more we use nuclear power, the more of these isotopes we can use either in space exploration or here on earth.

Nuclear power has so many uses in society and its a lie that its too expensive to pursue.  The reality is that we are living the reality now: our 10 Aircraft Carriers and hundreds of nuclear submarines are powered on nuclear fuel and run limitlessly.  Why is nuclear good enough for our military and not good enough for the public good? How much do our taxes go up for each aircraft carrier built and how much revenue does that aircraft carrier generate?