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Chris Wright: Nuclear is statistically the safest form of energy production
“It's the safest form of energy production we've ever seen, for amount of energy it's produced and the amount of negative impacts, but people think it's the scariest and the most dangerous.”
Wright: Federal government subsidizes wind power at 4 cents per kWh
“The government pays that wind power producer four cents a kilowatt hour in a subsidy to pay it. That's straight from the federal government to the provider of that wind power.”
Chris Wright: IPCC projects only a 0.2% to 4% income drop by 2100
“Their estimates range from 0.2 to maybe three, four percent reduction in per capita income at the end of this century.”
Wright: Texas wind and solar supplied 8% of power at peak demand
“Wind and solar go on vacation. They're 35% of the capacity in Texas, eight percent of the delivered power at peak demand.”
Wright: Hydrocarbons provided 85% of global energy in both 1973 and 2024
“Yeah, so, so in 1973, and I use that year because that's the Yom Kippur War. That's when oil prices tripled. Later in the decade, they doubled again in the Iranian Revolution. So we said, we gotta get off oil and gas. So in 1973, oil, gas, and coal provided 85…”