Comments on: Tried and True: Nuclear Energy http://blatantreality.com/2008/02/19/tried-and-true-nuclear-energy/ Highlighting Emerging Energy Technologies Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:22:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: People Power Granny http://blatantreality.com/2008/02/19/tried-and-true-nuclear-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-442 People Power Granny Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:02:16 +0000 http://blatantreality.com/2008/02/19/tried-and-true-nuclear-energy/#comment-442 Thomas Friedman thinks that green technology will be the solution to problem of global warming, and it will be good for capitalism to boot. Do you agree? I write about this at peoplepowergranny.blogspot.com. You can vote in my poll on this, as well. Thomas Friedman thinks that green technology will be the solution to problem of global warming, and it will be good for capitalism to boot. Do you agree? I write about this at peoplepowergranny.blogspot.com. You can vote in my poll on this, as well.

]]> By: keith bryer http://blatantreality.com/2008/02/19/tried-and-true-nuclear-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-424 keith bryer Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:05:39 +0000 http://blatantreality.com/2008/02/19/tried-and-true-nuclear-energy/#comment-424 Your readers should also know that no one in the West would have ever built a nuclear plant to the Chernobyl design in any case. France has been supplying 80 per cent of its energy needs using nuclear power and exporting a surplus to Germany ( where the Greens are strong). To date no French people glow in the dark. James Lovelock, former Green hero who developed the Gaia hypothesis, now says nuclear is the only way to go to prevent man-made global warming, so if you are a Green, think again. Your readers should also know that no one in the West would have ever built a nuclear plant to the Chernobyl design in any case.

France has been supplying 80 per cent of its energy needs using nuclear power and exporting a surplus to Germany ( where the Greens are strong). To date no French people glow in the dark.

James Lovelock, former Green hero who developed the Gaia hypothesis, now says nuclear is the only way to go to prevent man-made global warming, so if you are a Green, think again.

]]> By: David Bradish http://blatantreality.com/2008/02/19/tried-and-true-nuclear-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-417 David Bradish Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:37:08 +0000 http://blatantreality.com/2008/02/19/tried-and-true-nuclear-energy/#comment-417 Pluto Boy, The "corporate welfare" the nuclear industry "relies" on is also the same "corporate welfare" going to other <a href="http://www.lgprogram.energy.gov/features.html" rel="nofollow">non-emitting sources of energy like wind and solar</a>. Are you against those technologies as well? Pluto Boy,

The “corporate welfare” the nuclear industry “relies” on is also the same “corporate welfare” going to other non-emitting sources of energy like wind and solar. Are you against those technologies as well?

]]> By: Pluto Boy http://blatantreality.com/2008/02/19/tried-and-true-nuclear-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-416 Pluto Boy Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:56:09 +0000 http://blatantreality.com/2008/02/19/tried-and-true-nuclear-energy/#comment-416 As Wall Street won't touch them, the only way new nukes will be built is with government-guaranteed loan guarantees. Bush & Congress have provided $20.5 billion in such loan guarantees (with many hidden strings attached) but they may not be enough given reactor costs which are sky-rocketing (to $10 billion per unit, perhaps). So, it looks like the nuclear industry has further devolved into relying on corporate welfare. Fiscal conservatives are cringing at this bailout. As Wall Street won’t touch them, the only way new nukes will be built is with government-guaranteed loan guarantees. Bush & Congress have provided $20.5 billion in such loan guarantees (with many hidden strings attached) but they may not be enough given reactor costs which are sky-rocketing (to $10 billion per unit, perhaps). So, it looks like the nuclear industry has further devolved into relying on corporate welfare. Fiscal conservatives are cringing at this bailout.

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