2015 Nuclear Power Will Be 99% Of New Generating Capacity.

[elektra]

Yep, that is right. Right before the 2016 elections 99% of all new electrical generating capacity will come from one source, 1 Nuclear Power Plant.

Watts Bar unit 2 nuclear power plant will come online

Christopher HelmanForbes Staff
ENERGY 9/17/2014 @ 11:05AM 12,148 views
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A nuclear reactor at the Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station in Tennessee is on track to be the first new commercial nuclear power plant in the United States to be completed in this century. Over its life-span, this one reactor will produce more electricity than six new combined cycle natural gas plants, or five new coal plants, or thirty of the largest solar arrays in the world, or 10,000 of the big MW wind turbines

 

[2aguy]

I just saw this today...

Bayou Renaissance Man Could nuclear power become cheaper than coal

Scientists in Britain, France, Canada, the US, China and Japan have already designed better reactors based on molten salt technology that promise to slash costs by half or more, and may even undercut coal. They are much safer, and consume nuclear waste rather than creating more. What stands in the way is a fortress of vested interests.

 

[jwoodie]

Kudos to the Obama administration for surreptitiously pushing nuclear power while hoodwinking the left wing loons on this subject.

 

[Staidhup]

Nuclear power is a reality and only true carbon neutral option available with current technology. the eventual progression from current fission powered to fusion based reactors is a question of technology and time, inevitable.

 

[flacaltenn]

About freakin time. The left is so worried about getting behind on wind and solar and have no concerns about losing our status as leaders in nuclear power design.. We ought to fast track 4 or 5 reactors as a demonstration of 3rd generation nuclear designs..

 

[elektra]

Kudos to the Obama administration for surreptitiously pushing nuclear power while hoodwinking the left wing loons on this subject.

Proof? Why lie, where is your proof.

 

[elektra]

If Obama gets kudos for a nuclear plant under construction, which began before obama was in office.

Then Obama can take credit for nuclear power plants closed strictly while Obama has been in charge.

SONGS Unit 2
SONGS Unit 3
Kewaunee
Crystal River
Vermont Yankee

Obama is shutting down energy production.

 

[Old Rocks]

When you consider all the costs associated with nukes, that is one of the most expensive ways to make electricity. And your opening post is silly. At the rate that solar is growing, that nuke plant in no way will make up 99% of added capacity.

Solar Facts Solar Energy USA

SOLAR IS GROWING AT AN EXPONENTIAL RATE IN AMERICA
-A sunny location (like Los Angeles, California, US) receives an average of 5.5 hours of sunlight per day each year.
-A cloudy location (like Hamburg, Germany) receives 2.5 hours per day of sunlight each year.
-Solar modules produce electricity even on cloudy days, usually around 10-20% of the amount produced on sunny days.
-Monthly average residential consumption of electricity in the US in 2008 was 920 kilowatt hours. Monthly average residential electricity bill in the US in 2008 was $103.67 (Source: US DOE).
-The US solar market is forecast to grow to more than 22.3 GW by the end of 2014.
-The solar industry employs more than 143,000 Americans who work at more than 6,100 companies, the vast majority being small businesses, in all 50 states.

IN 2013, A NEW SOLAR ENERGY PROJECT WAS INSTALLED IN THE U.S. EVERY 4 MINUTES!
-The U.S. solar industry grew by 53% from 2012 to 2013 making it one of the fastest growing sectors in the U.S. economy. The industry installed 5.2 GW of solar electric (PV and CPV) capacity in 2013.
-There is enough solar energy installed in the U.S. to power more than 3 million households!

And, whatever the per centage of added capacity that it represents, you will still have to pay a big company to use that electricity. Put solar on your roof, and be a producer as well as a consumer. Buy and EV, and become independent of the big energy corperations.

 

[elektra]

Old Crock is a Moron, go talk solar somewhere else.

 

[DGS49]

Between Godzilla and Fukushima, nuclear power has never been able to get out from under the oppression of irrational fears.

The incredibly high cost of permitting and building a nuke plant is largely due to irrational, oppressive regulations and requirements promulgaged by generations of idiots at the NRC and it's state mini-versions. Starting with a clean sheet of paper, competent nuclear specialists could design a safe reactor now that could be built for a small fraction of what the actual cost is in today's regulatory environment. And it wouldn't take a couple decades either.

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for fusion. The U.S. government has been funding reasearch at Princeton forever and they don't have squat to show for it. It has about as much chance as an anti-gravity machine.

 

[mamooth]

The NRC, with no fanfare at all, just made a huge rules change. Spent nuclear fuel may now be stored on-site in dry cask storage permanently. That bypasses the whole need for a national nuclear waste repository, the political fuss, and the blockages of licenses.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/30/us/spent-nuclear-fuel-is-allowed-to-be-stored-above-ground.html

 

[Henrik]

I think US should go forward on the climate area. Nuclear Power should cover at least 30% of the energi production in a couple of decennium. Nuclear Power gain the climate and is costworthy. I think US should be total independence on oil supplies and should stop importing oil from Russia.

America should decrease the amount of oil energy production to show China and other undeveloped
countries that a radical change in the climate is possible.

 

[elektra]

I think US should go forward on the climate area. Nuclear Power should cover at least 30% of the energi production in a couple of decennium. Nuclear Power gain the climate and is costworthy. I think US should be total independence on oil supplies and should stop importing oil from Russia.

America should decrease the amount of oil energy production to show China and other undeveloped
countries that a radical change in the climate is possible.

A nice thought but Green/Renewable energy is 100% dependent on ever increasing consumption of Oil.

Green Energy moves us backwards and increases dependence on oil.

 

[Henrik]

I think US should go forward on the climate area. Nuclear Power should cover at least 30% of the energi production in a couple of decennium. Nuclear Power gain the climate and is costworthy. I think US should be total independence on oil supplies and should stop importing oil from Russia.

America should decrease the amount of oil energy production to show China and other undeveloped
countries that a radical change in the climate is possible.

A nice thought but Green/Renewable energy is 100% dependent on ever increasing consumption of Oil.

Green Energy moves us backwards and increases dependence on oil.

What do you mean? I mean buildning Nuclear Power in the long term and decrease the consumption on oil in the long term. America should show a possible green power option. 30% may be hard, I mean just to decide a green energy option and decrease the emissions of carbon.

 

[elektra]

I think US should go forward on the climate area. Nuclear Power should cover at least 30% of the energi production in a couple of decennium. Nuclear Power gain the climate and is costworthy. I think US should be total independence on oil supplies and should stop importing oil from Russia.

America should decrease the amount of oil energy production to show China and other undeveloped
countries that a radical change in the climate is possible.

A nice thought but Green/Renewable energy is 100% dependent on ever increasing consumption of Oil.

Green Energy moves us backwards and increases dependence on oil.

What do you mean? I mean buildning Nuclear Power in the long term and decrease the consumption on oil in the long term. America should show a possible green power option. 30% may be hard, I mean just to decide a green energy option and decrease the emissions of carbon.

Green, it is a term that does not apply to the technology it names.

Solar covers square miles, hundreds of square miles, it takes a lot of oil to build enough solar to cover so much land.

Likewise, it takes thousands upon thousands of wind turbines to deliver power, again that requires a massive increase in the use of oil.

Neither solar nor wind technology are renewable, they both require an increase in the use Hydrocarbons and Fossil fuels, in the Construction, the Operation, the Maintenance, and the Removal of, when they are obsolete or broke.

 

[RGR]

America should decrease the amount of oil energy production to show China and other undeveloped
countries that a radical change in the climate is possible.

By doing what? Nationalizing perhaps the most efficient free market business in the entire country, and then turning back the taps by 10%? 20% 2%/year?

I always get bumps when people think interfering with the markets is a good idea, particularly the piece of the supply chain that is really good at what it does.

 

[Henrik]

What do you mean? 14% of the energiproduction come from Nuclear Power in the United States, that is too bad if we should make the climate dilemma. Nuclear Power dosent leed to any emissions of carbon, is costworthy and practical. I mean like building like 40-60 Nuclear Reactors in like a yearhundred.

I think America should show Europe and the rest of the world a green way to lead the climate dilemma. 80% of the energiproduction come from directly hurtfull oil for the climate, that I think America should think beyond.

 

[Old Rocks]

America should decrease the amount of oil energy production to show China and other undeveloped
countries that a radical change in the climate is possible.

By doing what? Nationalizing perhaps the most efficient free market business in the entire country, and then turning back the taps by 10%? 20% 2%/year?

I always get bumps when people think interfering with the markets is a good idea, particularly the piece of the supply chain that is really good at what it does.

Really? So you think that the REA was a bad idea? That the people in the rural areas of the US should have waited until the market was ready to ship them electricity?

 

[Old Rocks]

I think US should go forward on the climate area. Nuclear Power should cover at least 30% of the energi production in a couple of decennium. Nuclear Power gain the climate and is costworthy. I think US should be total independence on oil supplies and should stop importing oil from Russia.

America should decrease the amount of oil energy production to show China and other undeveloped
countries that a radical change in the climate is possible.

A nice thought but Green/Renewable energy is 100% dependent on ever increasing consumption of Oil.

Green Energy moves us backwards and increases dependence on oil.

And you are one of the stupidest liars on this board. Links to real information. Because what you are pulling out of your asshole stinks.

 

[martybegan]

When you consider all the costs associated with nukes, that is one of the most expensive ways to make electricity. And your opening post is silly. At the rate that solar is growing, that nuke plant in no way will make up 99% of added capacity.

Solar Facts Solar Energy USA

SOLAR IS GROWING AT AN EXPONENTIAL RATE IN AMERICA
-A sunny location (like Los Angeles, California, US) receives an average of 5.5 hours of sunlight per day each year.
-A cloudy location (like Hamburg, Germany) receives 2.5 hours per day of sunlight each year.
-Solar modules produce electricity even on cloudy days, usually around 10-20% of the amount produced on sunny days.
-Monthly average residential consumption of electricity in the US in 2008 was 920 kilowatt hours. Monthly average residential electricity bill in the US in 2008 was $103.67 (Source: US DOE).
-The US solar market is forecast to grow to more than 22.3 GW by the end of 2014.
-The solar industry employs more than 143,000 Americans who work at more than 6,100 companies, the vast majority being small businesses, in all 50 states.

IN 2013, A NEW SOLAR ENERGY PROJECT WAS INSTALLED IN THE U.S. EVERY 4 MINUTES!
-The U.S. solar industry grew by 53% from 2012 to 2013 making it one of the fastest growing sectors in the U.S. economy. The industry installed 5.2 GW of solar electric (PV and CPV) capacity in 2013.
-There is enough solar energy installed in the U.S. to power more than 3 million households!

And, whatever the per centage of added capacity that it represents, you will still have to pay a big company to use that electricity. Put solar on your roof, and be a producer as well as a consumer. Buy and EV, and become independent of the big energy corperations.

As long as you buy a big ass battery to power you when its dark and cloudy, and as long as you live at a latitude that provides enough and high enough quality sunlight.