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We Don’t Have an Energy Crisis—We Have a Logic Crisis

By Bob Smith, Commander, U.S. Navy (Retired)

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Santa Barbara Current
Jul 09, 2025
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California prides itself on leading the way in clean energy, but by 2030 we will follow Germany's lead into failure, removing all nuclear power without further extensions. Diablo Canyon is the last nuclear plant in the state — and once it’s gone, we will have no zero-emission baseload power, no scalable alternative, and a grid already overwhelmed by pol…

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