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Adam, I'm not sure how your discussion got so many deniers' comments. I've been hearing denial from the public in the same ways you have. I will also add the assertion that we can be all renewable any time soon. People hear two things: • the speaker after learning about climate change has exactly the same environmental solution set as before learning about climate change, and • climate change is easy to fix, we don't have to bring out the big solutions of CCS and nuclear power. RE UCS, I prefer IPCC and the sources they depend on. UCS policy proposals do not overlap enough with these for me to consider them as reliable. Eg, most policy experts would like almost total decarbonization of electricity by 2030, and see renewables sans hydro as 15% or so of 2030 electricity.On We have met the deniers, and they are us posted 1 week, 1 day ago 149 ResponsesClick here to view comment in original post
Jon, I don't know that most progressives are anti-nuke, not any more. Of those who were anti-nuclear power a year ago, quite a few told me that they changed their mind after reading this article: with footnotes: http://www.quaker.org/fep/FJ-Nuclear-Energy-Debate.html without: https://www.friendsjournal.org/nuclear-energy-debate-among-friends-another-rOn Do we need nuclear and coal plants for baseload power? posted 1 week, 3 days ago 144 ResponsesClick here to view comment in original post
Solar PV panels are made in China, and a NY Times article some time ago reported on the health and environmental effects. Here's a question for a good number of people in this discussion: we depend on Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the sources they depend on, to get our science information. Why not do the same for the policy recommendations? There were a number of assertions in here that were not peer-reviewed, let alone accepted by discernment over time. I have never seen Lovins assertions on nuclear power in a peer-reviewed journal. The Italian and Spanish grids are 30 - 40% renewables? I went to World Nuclear Association to learn more. Italy (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/default.aspx?id=342&terms=italy): In 2007 local production was 314 billion kWh gross, 53.5% from gas, 12% from oil, 16% from coal and 12% from hydro. Imports of 45 billion kWh net (effectively, some 14% of its needs) are required, mostly nuclear power from France. So 6.5% of production is unaccounted for and presumably comes from renewables including hydro and biomass. Spain's numbers (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/default.aspx?id=374&terms=spain): Power production in 2007 was 306 billion kWh gross, 18% of this from nuclear power, 24% from coal and 31% from gas. That leaves 27% unaccounted for, so counting hydro and biomass, Spain does supply a lot of its electricity from renewables. Italy is planning to build lots more nuclear power. Spain "plans" to close its current nuclear power plants but hasn't planned what will take its place. That said, the basic points re base load have been dealt with. A wind question: since all uber-plans for large scale deployment of wind power show it schlepped long distances, do those strongly in favor of local electricity oppose those plans?On Do we need nuclear and coal plants for baseload power? posted 1 week, 3 days ago 144 ResponsesClick here to view comment in original post
Reid: toxic wasteland?
Compare the relative dangers to Nevadans and the world, not counting climate change:
- Yucca Mountain accepts nuclear waste from all over the US, perhaps from outside the US, up to its technical limit, which is much higher than its legal limit, compared with
- Nevada keeps the smallest of its coal plants open.
Karen Street
On Obama budget proposal would cut off funding for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago 8 Responses- Yucca Mountain accepts nuclear waste from all over the US, perhaps from outside the US, up to its technical limit, which is much higher than its legal limit, compared with
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tritium worries?
Ok, guys, time to talk about something important.
Exposure to radioactivity for someone living near a nuclear power plant is less than for someone who smoke one cigarette/year.
Karen Street
On Can Obama stop the nuclear bomb in the Senate stimulus plan? (Part 1) posted 9 months, 1 week ago 53 Responses