Well, at least there is one guy who seems to have his head wrapped around the Alaska energ probles pretty well.  Robert Seitz is a PE Electrical Engineer and lifelong Alaskan who pretty much runs thru the gamut of possible sources of future energy production and storage systems.  He even includes possible Tidal Energy from Cook Inlet, although the focus of the article is on keeping the NG production going at full tilt until other shit can be brought online.  He doesn't discuss the proposed Nuke plant, the Susitna dam, geothermal power from our volcanoes or the NG pipeline from the slope.  Bothe the nuke plant and the dam have the Earthquake problem, which could turn either project into a total disaster if it was anything like the 1964 9.2 quake that took out Anchorage.  Main issue here is his insistence on "free market" principles, which no matter what you do will jack up the price of energy to make profits for the shareholders as high as they can extract from the energy consumers.

Anyhow, the clock is ticking for next winter, and they need to come up with some kind of plan or it could get ugly up here.

https://mustreadalaska.com/robert-seitz-lets-keep-cook-inlet-gas-flowing/

Robert Seitz: Let's keep Cook Inlet gas flowing

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