[beavus]

"Patrick Moore, a Greenpeace founder, has founded GreenSpirit, an environmental group that supports nuclear power."

http://www.greenspirit.com/

[jw777]

but damnit, no guns allowed w/in city limits.

[Cinnamon]

w00t?

[spinestein]

[Nuclear power is still politically unpopular, and some scientists say it shouldn't be used to address global warming. The Union of Concerned Scientists, for example, points to three deal breakers: nuclear waste, the risk of catastrophic accidents and the potential for terrorists to target nuclear plants.]


Wrong, wrong and wrong.

The Union of Concerned Scientists has nothing to do with science and everything to do with the politics of anti-capitalism and anti-globalization.

[DakotaGator]

This is great! Pit the fuzzy-thinking factions against each other. Those opposing nuclear generation of electricity now must contend with those trying to save the earth through electric cars.

Divide and conquer!

[InterceptPoint]

I suggested in a post a least a couple of years ago that electric cars and nuclear energy was an obvious solution to the rising price of gasoline.

Since then I have discovered that nuclear energy is not all that cheap. I'm not sure why but when you hear that it takes 1200 people to run the San Onofre plant then you get a hint. I'm betting half of them are government types watching the other half work.

OTHOH, it still sounds like a good idea to me.

[spinestein]

[While few are on the road now, electric cars are gaining a smattering of adherents. Some hobbyists are building plug-in hybrids, which run almost completely on electricity, while start-up Tesla Motors next month will start selling an all-electric sports car.]


Electric cars make a LOT of sense within city limits where typical traffic is limited to stop and go driving at speeds rarely exceeding 40-50 mph. And charging the cars off the grid powered by more nuclear plants makes even more sense.

There are plenty of alternative energy sources to choose from and they all have their pros and cons, depending on where you live and what your needs are. The environmentalist activists seem to condemn every alternative EXCEPT for solar panels, which they practically worship as the salvation of humanity.

[USNBandit]

Nuclear power will provide electricity to the grid,

Of course like everything else that California needs they will want the Nuclear reactors built in a neighboring state, like Nevada or Arizona.