Brazil Plans to Build 50 More Nuclear Power Plants ( while America plans to build... windmills! )

Xinhua ^ | Sept. 12 , 2008 | staff

[FredZarguna]

Conversion of corn to ethanol is stupid. Conversion of cane sugar to ethanol may or may not be. The truth is that, yes, it is more energy efficient, but no one is actually sure how efficiently it's done because in Brazil this process is heavily subsidized and many of the subsidies are hidden.

More importantly, proponents of ethanol conversion by whatever means -- except biomass conversion, which may never be economical -- do not consider the lost opportunity cost of turning food into fuel. That cost is extremely high, and to the extent that it displaces primary agricultural grain sources has a ripple effect in increased costs and lost efficiencies throughout the economy.

Your comment made the same point as mine with a lot more words, but thanks for amplifying.

[magellan]

Brazil wants 50-60 nuclear power plants by 2050.

China wants to build 100 nuclear plants by 2020.

Westinghouse is selling AP-1000 reactors all over the world.

They have sold six in the U.S.

Our irrational fear of nuclear energy may well be what leads the U.S. to being a third-world country by mid-century.

Anyone who studies the history of energy production will realize nuclear power was the logical next step for electric generation after coal. Instead, now we are putting up natural gas fired plants all over the place, which is increasing the demand for, and driving up the cost of, natural gas.

Even global warming phobia is not enough to cause the radical left to give up on their nuclear phobia.

It is the 21st century. We should be living in the Jetson's world. Instead we have a rerun of the Carter years, complete with gas lines.

Thank you, Jane Fonda.

[WHBates]

Which Rebublican would that be????

[VOA]

Brazil Plans to Build 50 More Nuclear Power Plants ( while America plans to build... windmills! )

Another SAD day for the United States of America.

This is just another insult...after I honestly explained to
a cousin that Brazil has been running a MUCH more SANE domestic
energy policy than the USA.
FOR DECADES.

As I paid attention to the "Chemical and Engineering News"
article about Brazil's plan to not be a slave-nation to Saudi Arabia
and other terrorist-nations.
And that was about 15-20 years ago.

[org.whodat]

You really don’t know???http://wikimapia.org/1018446/Phipps-Bend-Nuclear-Reactor-Site

[doug from upland]

[AlaskaErik]

Brazil looks to the future and sees nuclear power plants; the Democrats look 500 years in the past and see windmills.

[Jacquerie]

Pelosi invests in Picken’s wind company. If a Republican did that, they would brought up on charges.

Ya got that right. Charges would be filed after weeks of abuse by NYT et al.

When questioned on a Sunday talk show a few weeks ago, Speaker Stretch commented that she invested only $50K, a small percentage of her available investment funds. No further questions or followup from the old media.

[WHBates]

I wouldn't have ask if I knew and I don't think you do either. While the plant was canceled in 1982, what does the TVA BOD decision shutting down a make work boon doggle have to do with the then Republican President (several other TVA projects were canceled in the same time frame BTW, all in the wake of TMI and decreasing electrical demand). He (Reagan) disliked the concept of TVA BTW not Nuclear power.

[pray4liberty]

The Don Quixote solution?