China Builds Nuclear Reactors while U.S. Burns Food For Fuel

[boedicca]

China is planning to invest $511B to build 245 nuclear reactors.

The U.S. is burning up food for fuel.

That pretty much sums up the state of things.

Nuclear Boom in China Sees Reactor Builders Risk Their Know-how for Cash - Bloomberg

Al Gore's mea culpa for corn ethanol support - U.S. news - Environment - msnbc.com

 

[LordBrownTrout]

China is planning to invest $511B to build 245 nuclear reactors.

The U.S. is burning up food for fuel.

That pretty much sums up the state of things.

Nuclear Boom in China Sees Reactor Builders Risk Their Know-how for Cash - Bloomberg

Al Gore's mea culpa for corn ethanol support - U.S. news - Environment - msnbc.com

Yep. Never has been a good idea to burn your food for fuel. The three main sources of energy, crude, natural gas, and nuclear and we're fiddle farting around with the bottom three sources ie wind, solar, and biofuels. It's not going to be a surpise when we're in the rearview mirror.

 

[Rozman]

Our energy policy is this....We don't have an energy policy...other then hand our dollars over to the Saudi's
pretty soon the value of our dollar thanks to Obama won't be worth a whole lot and we have to pay in Euros.

 

[mdn2000]

Only problem for China is they do not have the engineers to build all these reactors, China is 100% dependent on the USA and other nations for the technology and engineers.

 

[mdn2000]

Our energy policy is this....We don't have an energy policy...other then hand our dollars over to the Saudi's
pretty soon the value of our dollar thanks to Obama won't be worth a whole lot and we have to pay in Euros.

Obama is getting us off the foreign oil addiction.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Our energy policy is this....We don't have an energy policy...other then hand our dollars over to the Saudi's
pretty soon the value of our dollar thanks to Obama won't be worth a whole lot and we have to pay in Euros.

Obama is getting us off the foreign oil addiction.

yeah....Obama farts should provide us with plenty of fuel....

 

[Trajan]

China is planning to invest $511B to build 245 nuclear reactors.

The U.S. is burning up food for fuel.

That pretty much sums up the state of things.

Nuclear Boom in China Sees Reactor Builders Risk Their Know-how for Cash - Bloomberg

Al Gore's mea culpa for corn ethanol support - U.S. news - Environment - msnbc.com

truth be told I have no love for fossil fuels. However, until the technology gets us there solar won't carry the load, so coal is our mainstay. ( wind is a regional gig, if it works go for it but it will never substitute for coal).

The point is the one thing I could never understand and that does really point to the lunacy displayed by the so called Greens is why nuclear is banged out of the park as an alternative? Its unreasonable and speaks to an illogic that borders on the psychotic inho.

Oh and china will still continue to open new cola fired power pants to the tune of one a month for the next couple of years as they have been doing in the past. Adding nuclear to their portfolio however will provide them viable alternatives down the road....and us?

 

[Spoonman]

China is planning to invest $511B to build 245 nuclear reactors.

The U.S. is burning up food for fuel.

That pretty much sums up the state of things.

Nuclear Boom in China Sees Reactor Builders Risk Their Know-how for Cash - Bloomberg

Al Gore's mea culpa for corn ethanol support - U.S. news - Environment - msnbc.com

What happend to Obama's promise to champion alternative energy

 

[Old Rocks]

Only problem for China is they do not have the engineers to build all these reactors, China is 100% dependent on the USA and other nations for the technology and engineers.

Like they are dependent on us for computers? Or cars? The Chinese are doing exactly what the Japanese did after WW2. They are playing a serious game of catch up, with the ultimate goal of surpassing us.

http://eprints.usq.edu.au/6397/1/Ku_Wen_Xiang_Goh_PV.pdf
Abstract: This paper started with describing first degree in engineering programs in
Australia and China. It was found that the number of first degree in engineering awards
per capita for Australia and China was at par. Post-graduate programs in engineering
in the two counties were also mentioned and compared. For master’s degree in
engineering, the number of graduates for Australia to China per capita is 1 to 4.22. It
was also discovered that most of the master’s degree in engineering in both countries
were by coursework. There was no master’s degree in engineering by research program
on offer in China similar to that offered in Australia.

 

[Old Rocks]

China is planning to invest $511B to build 245 nuclear reactors.

The U.S. is burning up food for fuel.

That pretty much sums up the state of things.

Nuclear Boom in China Sees Reactor Builders Risk Their Know-how for Cash - Bloomberg

Al Gore's mea culpa for corn ethanol support - U.S. news - Environment - msnbc.com

What happend to Obama's promise to champion alternative energy

Same thing that happened to his promise to help the middle class.

 

[uscitizen]

China is planning to invest $511B to build 245 nuclear reactors.

The U.S. is burning up food for fuel.

That pretty much sums up the state of things.

Nuclear Boom in China Sees Reactor Builders Risk Their Know-how for Cash - Bloomberg

Al Gore's mea culpa for corn ethanol support - U.S. news - Environment - msnbc.com

Yep. Never has been a good idea to burn your food for fuel. The three main sources of energy, crude, natural gas, and nuclear and we're fiddle farting around with the bottom three sources ie wind, solar, and biofuels. It's not going to be a surpise when we're in the rearview mirror.

We get nearly 50% of our electricity from Coal. It is actually our number one source of energy for electric generation.

 

[uscitizen]

China is planning to invest $511B to build 245 nuclear reactors.

The U.S. is burning up food for fuel.

That pretty much sums up the state of things.

Nuclear Boom in China Sees Reactor Builders Risk Their Know-how for Cash - Bloomberg

Al Gore's mea culpa for corn ethanol support - U.S. news - Environment - msnbc.com

What happend to Obama's promise to champion alternative energy

Same thing that happened to his promise to help the middle class.

The same thing that happened to Bush's promise to build refineries on closed military bases.
And his promise for the USA to not be the police force of the world nor be into nation building.

 

[editec]

Our energy policy is this....We don't have an energy policy...other then hand our dollars over to the Saudi's
pretty soon the value of our dollar thanks to Obama won't be worth a whole lot and we have to pay in Euros.

And who do we thank for this?

We have an energy policy, only the AMERICAN PEOPLE aren't in on it.

Remember the flap over CHEYNEY's SECRET energy policy talks?

YOu remember, that, don't you?

All us crazy lefties complaining that the US energy policy was being forged by Cheyney and the oil companies?

Remember how the right wingers were telling us those complainers were all nothing by partisans and malcontents and probably socialists?

Make no mistake about it....we DO have an energy policy.

It was created by our energy corporations for their benefit, and it was created without our input, but it definitely IS in place.