The so-called Green New Deal? A headline without a blueprint. The New Millennials movement calls it what it is: performative policy no math, no market reality, no muscle. What we need now is the Real Green Deal, a sustainable, scientifically grounded strategy that turns America into the undisputed superpower of energy innovation.

The chapter “Green Energy for the 21st Century” outlines how America can pivot from performative progressivism to engineering a future of hydrogen-fueled vehicles, fusion-powered grids, and helium-3 lunar mining.

This isn’t climate activism. It’s national strategy.

Hydrogen Over Batteries: The Pragmatic Pivot

Battery-operated electric vehicles have had their moment. But the rare earth minerals needed to make them work is unsustainable and geopolitically dangerous. The answer? Hydrogen fuel. It’s clean, abundant, and doesn’t rely on war-zone mineral extraction. With smart legislation, state-by-state pilot programs, and aggressive public infrastructure upgrades, hydrogen can outcompete both gasoline and electric without a ban.

Don’t outlaw gas outdate it.

From public buses to long-haul jets, the Real Green Deal envisions a future where American-made hydrogen powers American-made machines. The kicker? Once the infrastructure is built, the fuel is essentially free.

Build the Grid, Then Let It Lead

The U.S. power grid is a fragile dinosaur from a bygone era. It’s time to reinvent it as a decentralized, renewable, and fortified system. Install micro wind turbines on existing power poles. Line solar panels along long-distance transmission routes. Back it all up with smart resistors, battery stations, and localized geothermal nodes.

No new land needed. No corporate landlords.

This isn’t just smart energy policy, it’s a jobs plan, an infrastructure revolution, and a national security imperative. The grid becomes a government-run institution again, not a hedge fund’s toy. Yes, that means union jobs, local contracts, and community-owned energy.

Lunar Mining: America’s Next Great Industrial Boom

You want to talk generational wealth? Look to the moon. Within just the first three meters of lunar soil lies over a million tons of helium-3, a non-radioactive element ideal for nuclear fusion. If processed through fusion reactors, it could produce more energy than the entire 21st-century world is expected to consume.

This isn’t science fiction. It’s policy waiting to be written.

We beat the world to the moon once. We can do it again.

The chapter proposes colonizing the moon not as a flex, but as a necessity. If America doesn’t move now, China or private mega-corporations will. News flash, they won’t share. Whoever monopolizes helium-3 mining will control the clean-energy future.

Asteroids Worth Trillions: The Google Dollar Rock

The next phase? Use our moon base to redirect and mine trillion-dollar asteroids. Yes, trillion with a T. These cosmic resources contain gold, platinum, and rare earth minerals that could eliminate the need for Earth-based mining entirely. It sounds far-fetched until you realize the tech to do this already exists and corporations and nation states are persuading this. What we need now is leadership with vision, not fear.

Let Greed Win—for the Right Reasons

You want to sell this to Congress? To business? Fine. The carrot isn’t climate crisis, it’s free fuel and infinite profit. We create localized hydrogen grids, eliminate third-party price-gougers, and let American businesses operate with zero energy costs. We’re not just saving the environment. We’re resetting 21st century capitalism on our terms. We the People, for the People, by the People can once again redefine American Exceptionalism. This is our generations fight, can we evolve to conquer the challenge, TBD.

This isn’t about punishing oil and gas, it’s about building a competitor they can’t touch. As international businesses continue to pay millions for jet fuel, American airlines will glide coast to coast and overseas with hydrogen so cheap it’s nearly inconceivable.

Universities, Not Corporations, Lead the Way

So where do we build it all? How do we site wind, solar, geothermal, and new grid infrastructure?

Ask the students.

Let public universities run the models, map the geography, and draft the blueprints. From Maine to Arizona, we’ve got a generation of future engineers ready to lay the foundation for a Real Green Deal. Why let a private contractor tell us where to put a turbine when a PhD candidate can do it with better tools and more transparency? This is government-funded science in the spirit of the Constitution.

Export Energy Like We Export Corn

In 20–30 years, we could become the world’s largest energy exporter, not in barrels of oil, but in gigaWatts of clean hydrogen, in patented fusion systems, and in next-gen battery tech built from asteroid metal. No need to underpay labor to outcompete China. Just outsmart them. Let automation, AI, and free fuel slash costs, while American manufacturers make better products and sell them at higher margins to the world.

This Future Isn’t Just Possible, It’s Ours to Take
From coast-to-coast hydrogen-powered fleets to moon-based helium-3 mining… from localized solar grids to trillion-dollar asteroid metals, the Real Green Deal isn’t a dream, it’s a decision. A race to the top, not a compromise with mediocrity. Let Hollywood glamorize hydrogen supercars. Let NASCAR build a new circuit. Let our kids grow up asking what it was like to “pay for gas.” Because they won’t have to.

We’re not building this for today.
We’re building this for those yet to come.

That’s the New Millennials energy.
Let’s spark it.

We’re not trying to fix the Green New Deal we’re replacing it.

The New Millennials movement is launching the Real Green Deal: a bold, science-first plan to power America with hydrogen fuel, decentralized solar and wind microgrids, and helium-3 fusion from the moon. No fluff. No pandering. Just a blueprint to out-compete China, create union jobs, and export clean energy like we export corn.

We don’t need to ban gas, we’ll make it obsolete.
And we’ll do it with tech that already exists.

Help us build it. Fuel the future.