It isn't what is best that is important, it's what is most destructive politically for a nation.
Environmentalists are never happy.
“In France, an anti-nuclear activist protested against the so-called “dangers” of nuclear power by tying himself to the train tracks to try to stop a train that was carrying nuclear waste. Apparently unaware of the fact that trains require great distances to stop, the protestor was promptly run over by the train and killed. Anyone who understood the laws of science, nature, and physics would not have made such a mistake. Also, what this means, as far as I am aware, is that in the country of France, more people have been killed by protesting against nuclear power (i.e., one), than have been killed by nuclear power itself (i.e., zero).”
We need more committed protesters, like this one.
We must stop calling them “environmentalists.” They care nothing about the environment. They’re café-marxists and it’s about time conservatives started referring to them that way.
Nice excerpt.
What a joke. Nuclear power is way more environmentally friendly than coal. It’s not even close. In fact, when properly produced and maintained, nuclear power has no negative environmental effects. Now, before you get all jumpy, I do realize that spent fuel rods are extremely toxic and radioactive. This is why I said nuclear power is safe when ‘properly produced and maintained.’
Most nuclear power plants hum along with out incident for years and years and years but, when thre is an accident it is a doozy. France has run their entire country on nuclear power for years and they’ve had very very few problems.
I’m going to take this one step further. Eventually the US of A will be fueled by nuclear power as well. It doesn’t polute like coal and oil and it doesn’t leave a big foorprint like hydroelectric. That, and eventually we’ll simply have no choice as natural resources dissapate. Hydrogen fuel cell cars will be powered from the energy created by a nuclear power plant.
Sorry you green people out there but, solar, wind, and biodiesel will never do anything more than help at the fringes and as much as you might protest, eventually the math and reality will force the people to do what’s best for the country, not what makes them feel good and intellectually superior.
Source is a really stupid blog - total about 34000 hits.
Cites 20,000 dead per year due to coal. Cites coal plants emit 100 times more radiation than nuclear.
Writer has no technical knowledge nor ability to put facts in context to reality.
Cites Westinghouse reactors “safe” cause they use gravity rather than electricity to shut down. First off, use of gravity isn’t new - ref. origin of the term reactor SCRAM. Second, gravity may always be there but that doesn’t help when the absorber tubes are buckled - duh.
Good...WV, PA,and other coal-producing states can sell U.S. coal to China and Germany. Our green bozos prefer to spend billions on windmills. It’s the Don Quixote syndrome of the Left.