Biden transition team releases new energy plan
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I like the optimism.Swaye said:
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Democrats are supposedly the party that listens to science, yet they oppose nuclear energy.
Science tells us nuclear energy is safe, clean, and not only way cheaper than wind/solar, but even reasonably cheaper than coal. And as coal production costs increase, nuclear production costs decrease as there has been more continuous opportunities to further increase the output of nuclear energy by discovering more efficient processes.
But nope...if we build more nuclear power plants it's going to be Chernobyl all over again because we apparently are no better than Soviet controlled Ukraine in the 1980s. Fukushima was more recent, but only 1 person died because of that meltdown and only a handful of people sustained injuries. The US would never build a reactor in a location that was prone to earthquakes in the first place. The USNRC even warned Japan of that way back in 1990, and yet Japan did nothing in response. And that's just scratching the surface of the risks the Fukushima plant was facing and were warned about that US nuclear reactors would never have.
In short, nuclear is safe. It's straight up irrational fear based on ignorance that leads to nuclear energy not having as much support as it should. We should be replacing all coal plants with nuclear, and we should be doing it yesterday. -
Anti-nuke environmentalists are not to be taken seriously, unless one allows for a true misanthropic agenda.Fenderbender123 said:Democrats are supposedly the party that listens to science, yet they oppose nuclear energy.
Science tells us nuclear energy is safe, clean, and not only way cheaper than wind/solar, but even reasonably cheaper than coal. And as coal production costs increase, nuclear production costs decrease as there has been more continuous opportunities to further increase the output of nuclear energy by discovering more efficient processes.
But nope...if we build more nuclear power plants it's going to be Chernobyl all over again because we apparently are no better than Soviet controlled Ukraine in the 1980s. Fukushima was more recent, but only 1 person died because of that meltdown and only a handful of people sustained injuries. The US would never build a reactor in a location that was prone to earthquakes in the first place. The USNRC even warned Japan of that way back in 1990, and yet Japan did nothing in response. And that's just scratching the surface of the risks the Fukushima plant was facing and were warned about that US nuclear reactors would never have.
In short, nuclear is safe. It's straight up irrational fear based on ignorance that leads to nuclear energy not having as much support as it should. We should be replacing all coal plants with nuclear, and we should be doing it yesterday. -
The fact they are putting Michael Mann, the fraud of a “scientist” who got caught faking the global warming hockey stick after he couldn’t even hide his MATLAB code correctly, is the icing on the cake of a completely fraudulent banana republic “administration”.
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I'm all for nuclear power, but you still have the problem of storing the stuff. Smart-ass me says put it on a weather balloon that can float to space and somehow and launch it to the sun.Fenderbender123 said:Democrats are supposedly the party that listens to science, yet they oppose nuclear energy.
Science tells us nuclear energy is safe, clean, and not only way cheaper than wind/solar, but even reasonably cheaper than coal. And as coal production costs increase, nuclear production costs decrease as there has been more continuous opportunities to further increase the output of nuclear energy by discovering more efficient processes.
But nope...if we build more nuclear power plants it's going to be Chernobyl all over again because we apparently are no better than Soviet controlled Ukraine in the 1980s. Fukushima was more recent, but only 1 person died because of that meltdown and only a handful of people sustained injuries. The US would never build a reactor in a location that was prone to earthquakes in the first place. The USNRC even warned Japan of that way back in 1990, and yet Japan did nothing in response. And that's just scratching the surface of the risks the Fukushima plant was facing and were warned about that US nuclear reactors would never have.
In short, nuclear is safe. It's straight up irrational fear based on ignorance that leads to nuclear energy not having as much support as it should. We should be replacing all coal plants with nuclear, and we should be doing it yesterday. -
https://www.epa.gov/radiation/what-yucca-mountain-repositoryBleachedAnusDawg said:
I'm all for nuclear power, but you still have the problem of storing the stuff. Smart-ass me says put it on a weather balloon that can float to space and somehow and launch it to the sun.Fenderbender123 said:Democrats are supposedly the party that listens to science, yet they oppose nuclear energy.
Science tells us nuclear energy is safe, clean, and not only way cheaper than wind/solar, but even reasonably cheaper than coal. And as coal production costs increase, nuclear production costs decrease as there has been more continuous opportunities to further increase the output of nuclear energy by discovering more efficient processes.
But nope...if we build more nuclear power plants it's going to be Chernobyl all over again because we apparently are no better than Soviet controlled Ukraine in the 1980s. Fukushima was more recent, but only 1 person died because of that meltdown and only a handful of people sustained injuries. The US would never build a reactor in a location that was prone to earthquakes in the first place. The USNRC even warned Japan of that way back in 1990, and yet Japan did nothing in response. And that's just scratching the surface of the risks the Fukushima plant was facing and were warned about that US nuclear reactors would never have.
In short, nuclear is safe. It's straight up irrational fear based on ignorance that leads to nuclear energy not having as much support as it should. We should be replacing all coal plants with nuclear, and we should be doing it yesterday.
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Meh. Even Obama couldn't stop the fracking revolution. That dino juice is coming out of the ground and into yer Jeeps whether Biden is President or not.Swaye said:
