Where Are We Going To Get Cheap Electricity To Keep Powering This Forum?

[james bond]

Diablo Canyon at Avila Beach, San Luis Obispo, CA

And your gadgets such as phone, tablet, notebook, drones and the like. Everything is electronic or electric nowadays. In Cali, we are discontinuing my favorite source of cheap and clean energy -- nuclear power in 2025. It's good for the global warming alarmists. Nuclear energy does not warm with CO2 releases.

What happened is Fukushima (earthquake and tsunami), Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and the like scared us off. Fukushima was not that bad in terms of nuclear release, and the small release has been overblown.* However, that's not to say it was acceptable. There will be some cancers and The truth is we can't live off of green energy. Green energy is not enough and costs more than anticipated. I like the idea and support green energy, but it's not sustainable. It's complementary. Thus, people need to get nuclear power plans back on track. California needs to elect politicians who will keep it going and bring back a few plants. Fossil fuels cause air and water pollution in addition to releasing the CO2.

* - "The releases so far from Fukushima are 1000 times less that of atmospheric testing from 1950-1980:

• Atmospheric tests released over 2.6 million petabecquerels based on Table 9 in Unscear
• Fukushima released 900 petabecquerels according to Radiation effects from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
• That means that atmospheric testing has released 2,800 (2.6 million / 900) times more than Fukushima. Even if you think the reference documents are off by a factor of 2000 in the wrong direction, the point is still valid.

Second, the atmospheric testing has had no measurable effect on human life expectancy. In fact, life expectancies in the northern hemisphere have increased since the atmospheric testing
Life Expectancy by Age, 1850-2004
HISTORY OF LIFE EXPECTANCY

It is likely that there will be dozens of excess cancers and deaths among the Japanese population. Perhaps hundreds of excess cases. This will be indistinguishable from the normal cancer incidences, and there is no way to tell a cancer from Fukushima from those from other causes. It is unlikely that there will be any health effects outside of Japan."

The deaths from the tsunami was much worse. It killed over 20,000 people.

We live in homes and work in buildings that are earthquake resistant and safe due to upgrading the infrastructure and better engineering. Why not build or upgrade our power plants to withstand deadly earthquakes better? A higher seawall (34' vs 30') would have stopped the effects of a deadly tsunami at Fukushima.

Climate Guru Tells Calif. Governor Not To Close Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant

Nuclear Power Plants and Earthquakes - World Nuclear Association

 

[debbiedowner]

I can think of a few poster's, bp, tipsy, pc. Just one of them could rub their thighs together for a few hours and create enough electricity to run a city a day or two.

 

[Confounding]

Giving up on nuclear power is stupid. There's a ton of potential there and we're only going to get better at it.