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Vermont just replaced its only only nuclear reactor with fossil fuels obtained from fracking
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| February 1, 2015
| Dan from Squirrel Hill
Posted on 02/02/2015 3:04:53 PM PST by grundle
Vermont just replaced its only only nuclear reactor (which had accounted for 71.8% of the state’s electricity production) with fossil fuels obtained from fracking
For the past 42 years, Vermont’s only nuclear power plant was responsible for 71.8% of the state’s electricity production. This huge amount of electricity was generated by a single nuclear reactor.
Vermont has just shut down this reactor.
The replacement energy source for this shut down reactor is shale gas, a fossil fuel whose combustion causes global warming, and which is obtained from fracking.
And all this time, I had thought that liberals in Vermont were against fossil fuels, fracking, and global warming.
Meanwhile, France, which gets 80% of its electricity from nuclear power, has the cleanest air in the industrialized world, and the cheapest electricity in Europe.
There are new nuclear power plants currently under construction in the U.S., but all of them are in Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee, which are not exactly thought of as bastions of liberalism and environmentalism.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: canada; climatechange; energy; enviralists; fission; fracking; france; georgia; globalwarming; naturalgas; nuclear; nuclearfission; nuclearpower; opec; saudiarabia; southcarolina; tennessee; vermont
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posted on
02/02/2015 3:04:53 PM PST
by
grundle
To: grundle
OMG!?!?!?!?!?!? We’re all gonna be drinkin’ poison dihydrogen monoxide. :>}
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posted on
02/02/2015 3:06:40 PM PST
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
To: grundle
...a fossil fuel whose combustion causes global warming,...No it doesn't.
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posted on
02/02/2015 3:07:15 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
To: grundle
“... a fossil fuel whose combustion causes global warming,...” There it is again. Settled science.
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posted on
02/02/2015 3:07:57 PM PST
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
To: grundle
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posted on
02/02/2015 3:08:13 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
To: grundle
Shhhhhh......... Ixnay on the agsnay. Return to the world of make believe asap.
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posted on
02/02/2015 3:08:39 PM PST
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: grundle
It’s not fossil fuel, it’s a byproduct from the earth’s core
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posted on
02/02/2015 3:08:49 PM PST
by
molson209
(Blank)
To: grundle
From Burlington Free Press Op-Ed Oct 2014:
. . .Vermont Yankee, a safe and reliable nuclear plant that had its operating license renewed in 2011 and would have provided Vermont with its cheapest power for the next 20 years, is being shut down prematurely. Never mind that this is a nuclear plant that has kept electricity prices lower than they otherwise would be without it and avoids 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year.
The economic impact of Vermont Yankee's impending loss transcends state lines. Ratepayers in western Massachusetts and across the border in New Hampshire have been told to expect sharp increases in electricity prices. Utility officials in both states blamed the increases on Vermont Yankee's shutdown. And if New England's other nuclear plants are shuttered, Vermonters are likely to see a jump in their own electricity bills that would come on top of the still-to-be determined cost of Vermont Yankee's loss. . .
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/opinion/my-turn/2014/10/16/nuclear-loss-drive-power-rates/17321293/
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posted on
02/02/2015 3:12:46 PM PST
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: grundle
Vermont: no wonder its nickname is "Vomit"...
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posted on
02/02/2015 3:25:54 PM PST
by
kiryandil
(making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
To: TigersEye
In my neck of the woods, the newly-planted banana trees are buried under 3 feet of snow, and it hasn’t gotten over 32 degrees in 6 weeks...
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posted on
02/02/2015 3:27:13 PM PST
by
kiryandil
(making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
To: Brad from Tennessee
The taxpeasants of Vomit voted for this stuff, and they deserve to get it GOOD AND HARD.
2 bits for a KwH coming like a clue-by-four across the face, Vomit bee-atches!
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posted on
02/02/2015 3:30:27 PM PST
by
kiryandil
(making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
To: kiryandil
I hope to heck you don’t live in Florida!
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posted on
02/02/2015 3:34:04 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
To: grundle
If the whole country starts generating electricity with natural gas as well as using it for heating and transportation and distribution overseas, it probably won’t stay relatively inexpensive for long. Natural gas prices dived with fracking. Prior to fracking, natural gas had gotten pretty expensive.
To: grundle
AHHHH! FRACKING! AHHHH! NUCLEAR! We’re all gonna DIE!!!
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posted on
02/02/2015 4:28:29 PM PST
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: grundle
Vermont Yankee was part of the New England’s nuclear policy in the 70s and 80s. Now most of them is shut down.
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posted on
02/02/2015 4:33:28 PM PST
by
ExCTCitizen
(I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
To: TigersEye
According to liberals, burning fossil fuels causes global warming. Therefore, liberals, by switching from nuclear to fossil fuels, are in favor of global warming.
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:49:42 PM PST
by
grundle
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Thanks. There are lots of great ideas for new kinds of reactors, which are far better and safer than the older ones.
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:50:35 PM PST
by
grundle
To: molson209
I've heard the theory that it comes from below the surface of the earth, and is in constant production, and is, therefore renewable. Perhaps that explains why "peak oil" was such a bad prediction.
However, I think it's a fossil fuel.
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:52:09 PM PST
by
grundle
To: Brad from Tennessee
Thank you for the link and info. I had not been aware that it had just gotten a 20 year renewal.
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posted on
02/02/2015 5:53:26 PM PST
by
grundle
To: rktman
The stuff is perfectly safe if converted to anhydrous dihydrogen monoxide. You can actually breath it and it won’t hurt you.
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posted on
02/02/2015 6:10:16 PM PST
by
redfreedom
(All it takes for evil to win is for good people to do nothing - that's how the left took over.)
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