However,
none of the alternative technologies, including nuclear power, appear at present to promise sufficient cost reduction to enable the electric power industry to again become a leading rather than a sustaining source of economic growth in the U.S. economy.
The problem is that
none of this
technology exists or, where it does as in the case
of CCS, has not been deployed at a large enough scale, because it costs much more than the
alternative: freely polluting the atmosphere.