Posted on 06/21/2016 2:26:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
March for Environmental Hope A real thing, Jimmy.
If truth is stranger than fiction, it should come as no surprise that Friday marks the start of the first-ever pro-nuclear power march — probably in world history — and it all starts in San Francisco.
The March for Environmental Hope, a four-day trek from the City by the Bay to Sacramento, is being pitched as a family-friendly event — and in this case that means more than funnel cakes and bounce houses.
Organizers are hoping to tug on the collective heart strings of America by making this about the children, as in leaving them with a less-polluted Earth. And it might work.
In a somewhat head-scratching about-face, environmentalists have more and more in recent years turned to nuclear power as the future of clean energy. That link is a lot less complex than the nation’s power grid, even if the reasoning has some holes.
And the timing of the march is important. Today, PG&E is expected to announce that it will close California’s last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon in San Luis Obispo, in 2024. Two organizers of the march work at Diablo Canyon. One of the arguments for saving nuclear is that natural gas will replace it. Natural gas is ugly, no matter what the industry says. It’s also already heavily used in California and elsewhere — where do you think all that electricity for electric cars comes from? (Hint: your Tesla runs on natural gas.)
Alas, nothing is perfect, and nuclear energy is no exception.
While it’s emissions-free, it can do great harm to the environment. And when a nuclear plant sits atop an earthquake zone next to an ocean — which is the case with Diablo Canyon and it’s four surrounding fault lines — visions of Fukushima dance in our heads. It’s a safe bet no one wants Diablo Canyon radiation detected across the Pacific Ocean five years after an earthquake-fueled disaster.
No one wants billions of fish eggs destroyed either. But that’s what happens every year with Diablo Canyon’s seawater intake-outtake operation to cool the turbines in the reactors.
The March for Environmental Hope actually begins in Oakland and then heads to San Francisco, before going back to Oakland and then onward toward Sacramento. A new way forward or progress in reverse?
Really? I’ll believe it when it happens, and then it probably will get less press than “climate change”.
And so as the molten core of the last nuke power plant sets like the sun in the western sky..
We now look to the sky for our wind and solar and the oceans for wave and other new technology to deliver..
Da Boyz must be so proud.. Al, aRnie and MoonBeam..
The Three Stooges of the Environmental Movement
Is there a hint of bias on the authors' part? I think so. No complaints about the trillions of fish eggs destroyed by the EPA when they destroy rivers. (Heck, if they can say billions then I can say trillions, after all who is counting?)
My wife worked as a boss at PG&E before retiring, and has visited Diablo Canyon in the past as part of her job. Very safe place, but always besieged by protesters who hate nuclear. Guards there are very on the job with their rifles pointed at visitors to make sure no one causes trouble. Nuclear is safe, and is not causing a problem for fish - far fewer problems than overfishing or toxic sludge coming north from Mexico.
3 people in a line is a “march”?
Cost per Kilowatt-hr of Wind and Combined Cycle Gas Plants have an advantage over Nuclear from the research I have done recently, but let that go.
With that said, their is more too it, but a number a scheduled to be closed in Illinois.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-exelon-closing-nuke-plants-0603-biz-2-20160602-story.html
So these Marchers really want to do something?
Good hook up with all the Silicon Valley VC / Angel Money crowd and if some of you marchers have deep pockets put your money where your mouth is and get moving on LFTR, aka liquid fluoride thorium reactor.
That is what we need not a March.
Until then, get in sit down shut up and hold on.
It just shows how weak minded liberals are.
They didn’t get the message that three nuclear power plants melted down, the molten cores are release radioactive waste into the environment (tons of contaminated water flowing into the ocean daily), and TEPCO along with other experts agree the technology does not exist to clean it up and so the active release of radioactive waste into the environment is projected to last another 40 years.
This is not to mention the nuclear fuel TEPCO says it blew out over part of Japan which will contain isotopes that have half-lives in the tens of thousands of years? No hope of cleaning up 3 nuclear power plant meltdowns and someone thinks NOW is a good time to “go nuclear?”
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