It's over 90° right now where I live, so of course I have the AC on. But the power keeping my house comfortable is mostly coming from coal and gas plants. Which is slightly less than ideal.

But I'm not gonna switch it off and suffer. And others shouldn't be forced to either.

Also, why are nuclear plants from the 70s "obsolete," but other, much older green tech isn't?

We've used wind to do mechanical work since the 9th century. We've used water to do mechanical work since the third century BC.

(yes, I know mechanical work ≠ generating electricity, but the steam engine also predates electricity so whatever. If the Greeks had dynamos, they would've used water to drive them.)

"But the plants were obsolete tech."

The German fleet was on average newer than the US fleet. And outside of a few closures for mostly ideological reasons, our fleet is still going strong, churning out almost half of our nation's clean power. Nuclear plants last a *long* time.