There's an interesting thing happening with nuclear power. California. I just tweeted around an article by Michael Shellenberger, and it talks about how California might have to go nuclear or at least keep open some nuclear sites that might have otherwise closed because otherwise they just can't get to where they need to get. There just isn't any other way to get there. Renewables won't do it.

And I was looking at the landscape now and apparently according to this article also a recent Gallup poll shows support for nuclear energy is inching up. In other words, nuclear energy, which has always been unpopular, just sort of hit the bottom and it's inching up. Could it be all of the persuasion that's happening on this? Because there are certainly a lot of people talking about it.

But here's the landscape. I believe Bernie Sanders says no to nuclear. I believe he says moratorium, meaning don't build any new ones. Fact-check me on that, but I think Bernie is anti-nuclear power. Interestingly though, AOC, the most famous architect of the Green New Deal, is open to it. She doesn't say yes and she doesn't say no. And it's yet another example of why she's way smarter than most of her critics believe she is. She is way smarter than you think she is.

Because nuclear is, scientifically speaking, kind of the only thing you could do if you're really concerned about climate change. Now it's not the only thing you can do, but it's the only thing that's going to be big enough and scalable enough to make a difference. So now you have Yang, who's openly and vocally in favor of nuclear energy. You've got AOC, who's vocally and publicly in favor of at least having the conversation. And she says it.

Now keep in mind there's no chance that AOC would say she's open to the conversation about nuclear unless she already liked it. Saying you're open to the conversation is pacing her base. She can't just say, "Hey, nuclear all the way." But the fact that she says she's open to it tells me with 95 percent certainty that she's looked into it and she knows we need it.

So I'm going to say that AOC being on the side of nuclear, even though she says she's only open to the conversation, I believe that's a clear indication that she's leading her followers. First by pacing them and saying, "Well, we could have the conversation. There's nothing wrong with talking." Yes sir. So then people say, "Well, all right, we'll talk about it." Maybe there's something new, and there is something new, which is it used to be a lot more dangerous than it is now. That's new.

So between Yang and AOC being on that side, and also Biden, Biden is pro-nuclear. He's not making the biggest deal in the world about it, but he's publicly and solidly pro-nuclear as part of the solution. And of course the Trump administration is pro-nuclear and the Energy Department is doing things to try to stimulate development of new plants.

So here's what I think just happened. I think public opinion just turned a corner. Because you know that it's hard to pick out a turning point when you're in it. Usually it's more obvious if you're looking at the history. If you look at the far history you can tell where all the points happen because you can just graph them. But I think we just reached, and I mean just as in 2019, a turning point where there's something like a majority. The Republicans are already pro. And the most important voices, or at least the ones considered the most young, scientific, irrational voices, AOC and Yang and even Biden, are pro-nuclear.

So I feel as though we've turned a corner and something important is going to happen with nuclear and probably pretty soon. So there's that.