We are poised, and poised, and poised, and 10 or 15 years from now we might have one running. In the mean time all the ones we have are passed there service life. As far as nuclear goes, the clock is has run out for America.
Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:16 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Vo]:first day in carbon capture Jeff Fink wrote: >Funny how we are willing to build Nuclear plants for other >countries, but we are going to stick ourselves with windmills and >solar collectors. This is completely wrong. The U.S. is poised to license and build the largest number of nuclear power plants since the 1960s, including one in Georgia. It makes sense to build a nuke in Georgia because we have no wind or solar resources. In the desert outside of Los Angeles, building a nuclear plant instead of a solar thermal generator would be economic and technological insanity. It would be like putting a nuke next to Niagara Falls instead of installing hydroelectric generators. >Half of Iran is sun baked desert, but even they won't take solar >power over nuclear. Iran also has shortages of gasoline and they are devoting billions of dollars to devices that separate plutonium for some odd reason. I would not look them for energy policy ideas. - Jed
