Posted on 05/01/2021 4:53:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Here in Pinellas County, Florida, homeowners are being bombarded with offers to install solar panels on the roofs of their homes. We are offered this ‘service upgrade’ for no money down and very liberal credit terms for the panels and the battery packs that come with it. Are the power companies that generous, or are there other motives involved? I believe that this is all about those companies’ attempts to keep the advantages of nuclear energy, both financial and environmental, from being known and utilized.
An eye-opening documentary on Amazon Prime. Pandora’s Promise, reveals some fascinating truths about nuclear energy. For instance, did you know that not one person in the United States has ever died due to nuclear power generation or from an accident in a nuclear power plant? Three Mile Island caused no fatalities.
In Chernobyl, when a Soviet reactor built on the cheap and lacking any built-in safety features melted down, just over fifty fatalities occurred. The Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan caused a single fatality as a result of Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS), which would be the demonstratable casualty indicator in such a situation. On the other hand, the burning of coal causes 13,000 deaths a year in the United States and approximately 3,000,000 worldwide due to its particulate pollution, according to various health experts.
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How many birds and other wildlife have been mass killed by nuclear reactors?
Grid integration isn’t an issue with nuclear.
It’s a huge issue with renewables.
“How many birds and other wildlife have been mass killed by nuclear reactors?”
I don’t know, how many.
From very close up, I watched as nuclear power was murdered by a thousand small cuts. Anti’s literally killed it. Now they are forcing Green.
Revolution is needed to eliminate the green domestic enemies
I have a bumper sticker, worn and now dusty....
“A little Nookie never hurt anybody”
You can tell how good any idea is by evaluating how strongly democrats oppose it
The only battery you will get for no money down will be a placebo battery that will provide very little power. The expensive "real" battery will never pay for itself. Solar itself is a different story. Your neighbors subsidize your virtue signalling by paying three times more for your unreliable power than for reliable wholesale power.
” The Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan caused a single fatality as a result of Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS), which would be the demonstratable casualty indicator in such a situation.”
That’s true, but it ignores some other consequences. A 12 mile exlcusion zone around the plant still exists. An area that was once home to 100,000 people is still abandoned.
I’m not anti-nuke, but the layers of safety precautions required to prevent accidents make it far more expensive than alternatives.
The layers with which you pound us are propaganda........ small cuts that bleed nucs to death
“The layers with which you pound us are propaganda”
How so? Let’s take an example. After Fukushima regulations were changed to mandate flood protection for nuclear reactors. Before that event we didn’t know how dangerous flooding could be.
Here is a summary: https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/ops-experience/post-fukushima-safety-enhancements/flooding-and-seismic-defense.html
You may have more information, but to me these seem to be reasonable precautions.
A brother of mine in California installed solar. He didn’t do enough research.
One of his reasons was not financial but was the recently recurring controlled shut downs do to high winds in fire season.
Well guess what. Whenever his section of the grid is shut down for any reason, his solar system shuts off. His solar system has no power storage, just power generation. When the grid is down it cannot be allowed to put power out to the grid, and there is nowhere for any “extra” power from his system to go - it shuts off.
If he had just asked his electric company to give him the “equalized” monthly bill, that bills the same amount every month based on the annual amount averaged out, what would his monthly bill have been? It would have been about the same as the monthly bill he pays to a solar company, for a system he does not own, merely leases, for the next 25 years.
I asked him what happens at the end of the 25 years, or when he dies, or if he sold his house. His answer was he does not know or care, he won’t be there. I suggested he ask a realtor what they know about these solar deals (like the one he has) when a house is sold, because it may require the new owner accepting the solar lease deal, or him acquiring costs if they don’t. And those costs would come out of any gain on the house. But hey, it’s Kalifornia, so they probably force the new buyer, by law, to take the solar deal, like it or not.
Those were literally 60 year old reactor designs, with safety systems poorly thought through.
It’s long past time for updated reactor designs, likely using thorium, that are much safer the uranium based BWRs and PWRs.
“It’s long past time for updated reactor designs, likely using thorium, that are much safer the uranium based BWRs and PWRs.”
I would love to see those, but who is going to pay for them? If I’m a utility company I’m going to build the gas plant that will be finished on budget in two years. Not the experimental reactor that will work in 30 years, budget unknown.
The Left and the Greens are running down the road of not letting you combust fuel to produce power. We need a backup plan.
What we really need are cheap, home nuclear energy packs, no bigger than a baseball, that are able to provide unlimited daily power to the house. Is it possible? Absolutely, if the “Powers” decided that it wanted to go that way. But the “Powers” do not want people to have independent energy, and independent mobility, or freedom of action because they cannot be controlled if they are truly independent.
A lot of people don’t know that the cause of Three Mile Island was caused by the workers. If they had let the system shut down as designed, you’d have never heard of it. The engineers hubris was such they stopped the automated shutdown!!
Ditto that! I got my PhD (chem) with a minor in nuclear chemistry in 1973 with a view to working in the nuclear industry, then watched as it was slaughtered by frivolous lawsuits. Ridiculous.
I’m so happy Prince Andrew of Gnu Yak embraced Nuclear….oh, wait..
Weaponized Lawyers are domestic enemies more dangerous than Russia or Iran or North Korea
Was this meant to be a negative for nuclear or was it meant to draw a comparison with wind turbines, for which it is a known issue?
The problem is, I don't think we actually know the answer to your question, although I think it is safe to say that if bird deaths were an issue for nuclear power, we would have heard about it by now, repeatedly, in the most overzealous terms possible.
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