Jim Yanik wrote:
"Pete C." wrote in
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David Nebenzahl wrote:


anti babble deleted

Nuclear energy is "green", both safe and non polluting and given
proper reprocessing, largely renewable.

Nuclear is also the only source that is currently viable at the scale
necessary to eliminate coal and nat gas fueled generation, and
further to provide subsidized charging electricity for
electric/hybrid vehicles to further reduce oil consumption.

Nuclear is the only viable intermediate source that can allow a
significant shift away from fossil fuels *now* while the technologies
for other sources such as solar, wind, hydro and tidal develop
further to overcome the significant issues they currently have,
largely the utility scale energy storage capabilities required given
the intermittent generation of most of those sources.


plus you have to remember that the greenies are against dams,
so that kills hydropower,and they are against windmills because they
kill birds.
They also are against the power lines necessary to distribute the
electric power from remote windfarms.(or any other power generating
source...)


Of all the forms of power generation, hydroelectric is the most hazardous.
Dams seldom fail, but when they do, they fail catastrophically!

Every time someone starts ranting about extreme conservation, getting back
to a simpler time, the integrity of the "noble savage" lifestyle, and being
"at one" with nature, I have but one word:

Dentistry.