Times a-wastin' pilgrim.
Posted on 05/19/2008 9:54:02 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Is the author trying to make the case that this is a bad thing?
If we had kept building them all along, think how much better off we would be
Wow. Was McCain being crazy like a fox with his support of the Global Warming garbage?
Because with pebble-bed reactors he really could make a heavily nuclear America happen. Old Nuclear tech is precisely that, old.
Uh, because we want to reduce our reliance on oil?
Yes, we get eletricity from Nuclear Power Plants but only about 4% from Oil fired power plants. It’s the othe 1,100 products we get from petroleum that we need the free flow of oil to support.
“...climate change denier...”
I thought our strength was our diversity. Socialists have no tolerance for diversity of thought. The science is not there that man is responsible for global climate change. Certainly there are periods on Earth that man was not a factor and the planet as underground much more major shifts (warming cooling) than we are experiencing now. And how does the Left link man on Earth to the climate change of Mars?
As long as he supports amnesty of any kind and his unbridled love for crossing the aisle I will not vote for him.
Climate change maniacs are as great a threat to America as is Al Queda.
That would be demand rather than supply. Would want to import 16.
The main problem with building nuke plants is the regulations required by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. When a company proposes to build a nuke plane, they must submit the complete plans to the NRC who have the power to force them to redesign the whole plant even if it is 95% complete. The result is HUGE cost overruns. Also, each company will naturally have a different idea about how a nuke pp should be designed, therefore very few (if any) power plants are identical.
It would be nice if the eviro-whackos would at least support building a few every year. If the whackos really believe that global warming is the biggest threat to mankind (which they really don’t despite what they say), then building a few nuclear power plants makes perfect sense.
Heck I want my own pebble bed reactor in my garage. And I want it to come with the house when it’s built. And I want the utility company to resell my surplus. How cool would that be ?
Our politicians have not just failed to implement an energy policy, they have done all they can to prevent the US from having a policy.
Times a-wastin' pilgrim.
Okay then, let’s start building. Even if we don’t end up hitting some impossible goal, that’ll still be a bunch more reactors online.
Let’s gether done!
It's already $9 in some Alaska villages and they are stocking up.
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