A Looming Energy Crisis

Annuit Coeptis ^ | September 5, 2009 | Jay Henderson

[jay1949]

America’s problem of energy dependence has been pushed into the background by the brouhaha concerning Democratic health care proposals. In the year-plus since the “Drill Here, Drill Now” movement captured the support of a majority of Americans, absolutely nothing of value has been done to increase the domestic production of energy. This inaction keeps us dependent on foreign oil supplied by countries which hate America. This is a disaster well on the way to happening. And what will happen when the foo hits the fan?

[Atom Smasher]

The next step in the power grab? Make sure we don’t have the money to pay for foreign oil, so raise our prices at the tank.

I’ve already began stockpiling things to use around my house without the use of public utilities, ie for heat, cooking, cleansing, cooling - & I’m not stopping there.

Each & everyone of us can make it with well known resources that we just haven’t found a necessity to tap into...but we will beat this putz potus at his own game!

[Tarpon]

Obama’s planned energy crisis. Remember what he said about $4 gasoline, it's not the $4 price it's how fast it went up that was the problem he saw. Is it coincidence that ethanol can compete with gasoline in the $4-5 per gallon range?

Not only has nothing been done, the scam of the Democrats energy independence has actually reduced the available energy resources.

[kabar]

In the next 40 years, the population of this country will increase by about 135 million, which is the equivalent of adding the combined populations of the UK and Germany. Where is the energy coming from to support these increases? We have already added over 25 million people since 2000, or about the population of Texas.

[Tarpon]

Coal and nuclear.

[blam]

Our energy savior is Nuclear.

[downtownconservative]

Another crisis is perfect for the creation of chaos from which will arise the OButtopia. $400/BARREL OIL IS WHAT 0 (AND SOROS) WANTS. How can that not be clear??

[jay1949]

I’ve already began stockpiling things to use around my house without the use of public utilities, ie for heat, cooking, cleansing, cooling - & I’m not stopping there.

Ditto. Not as much as I like at this point - - went totally electric years ago and have no wood-heating capability at present; pondering . . .

[jay1949]

Where is the energy coming from to support these increases?

It isn't, to put it bluntly.

[kabar]

LOL. Yeah if the environmental nazis allow us to have them. Obama certainly won’t support it nor will his EPA. I wonder what the realistic time is to construct a nuclear plant from conception to being operational, factoring in environmental impact statements and legal challenges from the environmentalists. 15 to 20 years?

[jay1949]

I wonder what the realistic time is to construct a nuclear plant from conception to being operational, factoring in environmental impact statements and legal challenges from the environmentalists. 15 to 20 years?

Actual construction time for a nuclear power plant is 42 to 48 months. That excludes, of course, 10 or more years of lawsuits, sit-ins, more lawsuits, and so on. The cost of the delay is more than the cost of construction. This is why we need an expedited permitting process.

[kabar]

Here is a list as of August 2008 of applications, planned or existing, for additional nuclear power plants. It is interesting to see where they are planned and the fact that many of them are just expansions of existing facilities. No applications from CA, our most populous state.

[Tarpon]

The Chinese construct a new nuclear power it in a few years. They have pioneered the modular 'factory construction' of nuclear power plants, improves quality, safety and reduces construction time dramatically. Toshiba-Westinghouse is building a nuclear power plant factory in Lake Charles, Louisiana, near shipping ports so expect a lot of the subassemblies to be shipped in from other countries. Westinghouse has been doing the design for new nuclear plants in such a way that they can be 'factory built'.

You are right about our enviro-whack-jobs.

And while we are at it -- We should also bring back DDT and save 2,7 million African children from death each year. WHO in 2006 approved it's use indoors after trying for 30 years to find something wrong with using DDT. They found nothing.

If only we would get our common sense back, America could do so much more.

[kabar]

In 2008, Westinghouse Electric Co., designer of the AP1000, announced that China wants to have 100 nuclear reactors in operation or under construction by 2020.

[Tarpon]

Yeah, China now have several in the construction pipeline, I think it was 4, and the first fire up is coming soon.

And why aren’t we doing this everywhere?

[WHBates]

"And why aren’t we doing this everywhere?"

Your joking right? We do not have the industrial capacity to produce the equipment to build. Heck we are doing a power uprate and even have to order (MSRs)re-heaters from overseas. Our new Steam Generators had to be produced in Canada. New vessel heads had to be milled in Japan or Korea. Our new turbine in Germany.

Getting almost anything approved through the EPA is almost impossible. We will never be an industrial country again if we don't get government regulations under adult supervision. This will not happen with the current clowns in control and meaningful regulation reform.

[Tarpon]

What you say is right, it’s high time we change that isn’t it. You want jobs, nothing says new high paying jobs than building 100s of nuclear power plants.

The Lake Charles facility I talked noted is near a large industrial port so the huge sub-assemblies can be shipped in. But most are custom built and we could clearly build them in the USA.

Next time the eco-whakos have a sit in at a nuclear power site, maybe we should hold a tea party at the same time and place. For too long the eco-looneys and their state run media enablers have made like they speak for all, when they do not.

Question boldly.

[Spartan79]

Prediction: next time fuel prices soar to $4-6 gallon or higher, dimmocrats will respond the same way they did last time. Congress will hold hearings and demand that oil company execs parade in front of congressional nincompoops while six or seven different congressional committees and thirty or forty state attorneys general (repubs as well as dems) launch price-gouging inquiries. Then when the economy tanks again, as it inevitably does in response to these price shocks, and the price again subsides, congress will again go back to its default mode on expansion of our energy supplies: doing nothing, or doing only those things which makes things worse.

[danamco]

“Eco” and “environmentalists” and the minority likes are nothing but nice code words for the dreaded COMMUNISTS!!!

[jay1949]

Yup. That's exactly what will happen. Because in Washington DeeCee giving the appearance of "doing something" is much more important than actually accomplishing something useful.