Truth, but they were still mining the bad stuff  into my lifetime. The shutdown was politics.

Wind will be interesting.

Used to know an engineer who worked maintainence on offshore turbines. Awful job, but the pay was apparently epic. (It all went to his ex tho.)

Lots of power, but only where you don't need it and when you don't need it. Grid scale storage isn't going to be worthwhile without new physics and new chem, but development of markets for responsive demand has promise.