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Indian Point nuclear-reactor shutdown a huge blow to New York’s environment
NY Post ^
| April 29, 2020
| Robert Bryce
Posted on 04/29/2020 10:28:44 PM PDT by george76
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posted on
04/29/2020 10:28:44 PM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
The subsidies for wind power cited there are just obscene.
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posted on
04/29/2020 10:32:44 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: george76
Im glad I was able to visit NYC last summer, Ill never go back to that state (or city) again. Im sure upstate is nice, but not with the city strangling you for taxation and with stupidity.
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posted on
04/29/2020 10:38:12 PM PDT
by
datura
To: george76
I wonder how much more electricity is going to cost.
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posted on
04/29/2020 10:43:45 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: george76
Indian Point closing is a crying shame.
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posted on
04/29/2020 10:47:17 PM PDT
by
onona
(I'm sure there's more)
To: george76
It’s a retarded idea.
It always was.
But for thirty years or more they’ve been attacking, demonizing, and harassing Indian Point for green environut buttpats.
There had been talk of plans at one point to build a thorium cycle unit there.
But heavily politicized shouts of “radiation leaks” at the site and harpy shrieks over warning sirens not working eventually got the public to whine on command.
Camp Smith, Cortland Manor, sits right across from Indian Point on “the goat path”.
Was at drill there once when they tested the sirens.
“Hey boss, we gonna glow?”
“Yup, three headed kids and ears growing on foreheads.”
“Cool, they’ll have no excuse to not listen to me then!”
And we went about our duties.
But some whiners complained about “stress and disruption” of their lives on that one because they “weren’t told of the test”.
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posted on
04/29/2020 10:48:13 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: datura
Im glad I was able to visit NYC last summer,
nyc gives the word 'sewer' a bad name
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posted on
04/29/2020 10:50:17 PM PDT
by
867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: george76
"In 2017, three days after Cuomo announced Indian Point would be prematurely shuttered, his appointees .. revealed plans to shower $360 million in subsidies on renewable-energy projects."
Oh goody! Just what the State needs. More Cuomo projects that fail, or never get off the ground, with great losses to the taxpayers, but more money in the pockets of Cuomo's cronies, and donors.
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posted on
04/29/2020 10:53:43 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
To: george76
Unit 2s prodigious output left its more politically popular rivals solar and wind energy in the shade. Ivanpah, the biggest thermal-solar project in America, puts out less than 800 gigawatt-hours of juice each year. Located in Californias Mojave Desert, the solar plant sprawls over about 3,500 acres (about 5.4 square miles). And that eyesore of a solar plant also ignites 6000 birds per year in midflight.
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posted on
04/29/2020 10:55:20 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
To: george76
I guess when they can’t burn anymore coal, and lighting has to come from solar, it will be one stinky city, cause they ain’t going to be able to run A/C units!
Nuclear is the future, just not everyone has realized it yet.
I keep hoping for fusion reactors, but we have great fission designs ready to be built now. We should be following South Korea’s model. Build a few standard designs, over and over, get the costs down, enhance them incrementally, not macro level total redesigns each time out.
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posted on
04/29/2020 10:56:53 PM PDT
by
Aqua225
(Realist)
To: mass55th
"In 2017, three days after Cuomo announced Indian Point would be prematurely shuttered, his appointees .. revealed plans to shower $360 million in subsidies on renewable-energy projects." Crony Statism.
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posted on
04/29/2020 10:59:35 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
To: george76
In other words, dictator Cuomo and his leftist/fascistic toadies screwed NY City again and earlier without any need for a coronavirus.
To: Aqua225; george76
The Indian Point Energy Center produces some 25 percent of New York Citys and Westchesters electricity. The combined power generated by the two units amounts to over 2000 megawatts. The facility employs some 1,600 people. It really sounds like a great idea to shut down this reactor.
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posted on
04/29/2020 11:09:42 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
To: george76
Where exactly does Cuomo get his super power to force corporations to close their business ventures?
This super villain needs to tell his origin story.
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posted on
04/29/2020 11:15:04 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
To: george76
The United States does not deserve nuclear power because it's people are scientifically illiterate and backward. If it weren't for a handful of geniuses in the US’s history it would be another Afghanistan.
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posted on
04/30/2020 12:59:11 AM PDT
by
Herakles
(Diversity is applied Marxism!)
To: george76
The opposition to nuclear power is equal in ignorance to the opposition to 5G telecommunications.
Both stem from STUPIDITY and UNEDUCATED citizens.
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posted on
04/30/2020 2:37:21 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(The Democratic Party is communism)
To: Erik Latranyi
NY like many rat states have now been turned into generationally controlled rat thiefdoms with their propaganda media arm at thier side
To: datura
Upstate is very beautiful, and the people are great.
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posted on
04/30/2020 3:50:13 AM PDT
by
gogeo
(It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
To: george76
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posted on
04/30/2020 3:53:48 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds.)
To: george76
COVID rationing of life activities is a prerequisite to get people to accept rationing of electrical power to their homes.
In the future people will be able to watch youtube videos of NY celebrities talking about power rationing and saying, “We are all in this together and have to make due with 1/2 of what we used to have. That’s just the way it is”.
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