[dmcclurg]

Never confuse effort with results. Brian is confusing 20 years of professional effort with global results. According to Brian, decades of his professional effort were driven by a staunch belief that this effort was "protecting the environment", but now Brian no longer holds this belief, citing a supposedly "utterly failed" government contract with his company and three bullet points that highlight lackluster progress on the whole of the market and the supposed missed opportunity of nuclear power.

None of these results are materially affected by Brian's effort over the last 20 years. Federal and local government regulation and investment as well as corporate business decisions are responsible for reducing coal plants, constructing nuclear plants, and incentivizing "utopian energy". Brian's effort mostly falls into the corporate business decision category, but all we see of this in his article is a statement that his company failed to fulfill a $60M government contract. This experience really stands out as Brian's real inflection point, but the results of this effort are not only NOT discussed, they are--by his own admission--completely opposite of the government's perception of the results.