RE: Why nuclear power still matters
The ignorance spouted here by the anti-nuclear power crowd are even more mind boggling than usual.
#3. sboverie 04/25/11: Assuming broadcast power can be done, it would probably use the same sources of energy we use now, including nuclear. Er...so your wonderful new solution isnt a souce of energy at all, just a tramsmission system! Dont confuse the two. Dont waste everybody's time. Especially with a completely non-existent technology that would defy physics.
#4. klassman6 04/25/11 ...true renewables jumped from supplying 2% of new energy growth in the US in 2004 to 55% in 2009.
. What weasel words, Klassman, as you well know. Shame on you! The clue is in the word GROWTH. Many readers will have read this hurriedly to mean that renewables were supplying 55% of the US power in 2009 whereas the truth is far different isnt it? How about you responding right here on this blog with the tiny percentage of power across the whole of the US currently supplied by renewables in 2011 . Please take this as a test of your integrity. Or would it be just too painful to confront the truth?
It is far cheaper for a utility to invest in negawatts, i.e. in saving energy and promoting energy efficiency as a means to meet its future needs, rather than investing in a new power plant. Oh yeah? A what insignificant percentage reduction is this going to make, offset as it will be by ever oncreasing industrial and consumer demand over the coming years?
