The Nuclear Option Could Be Best Bet to Combat Climate Change
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Source: www.scientificamerican.com
To cut CO2 pollution, experts argue for nuclear power
By Umair Irfan, ClimateWire on June 3, 2016
CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo.The 31-year-old Callaway Energy Center is doing some heavy lifting.
Missouris lone nuclear power plant produces 11.7 percent of the states electricity from one reactor cranking out 1.2 gigawatts, making it the third-largest electricity producer in the state. Its 553-foot-tall, cloud-spewing cooling tower is the second-tallest structure in Missouri behind the St. Louis Arch, two hours drive east.
We are a baseload plant, Cox says. About 3,565 megawatts thermal and about 1,283 MW electric go out onto the grid. So its about 30 percent efficiency from what I have to produce inside the core from a heat point of view to what I get out on the electric grid, and thats typical for all steam-producing plants.
But Callaway really flexes its muscles when it comes to zero-carbon-emissions energy in a coal-heavy portfolio. Missouri gets 82 percent of its electricity from coal, and the recently bankrupt Peabody Energy Corp., the nations largest coal company, is based in St. Louis.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that Missouri ranks 13th in total greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Wind, solar, biomass and hydroelectric power provide the state with just 2.2 percent of its electricity. That means 83 percent of Missouris carbon-free energy comes from Callaway.
Read more: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-nuclear-option-could-be-best-bet-to-combat-climate-change/
Experts, not kids show clowns or divinity school dropouts
It's the future
That means 83 percent of Missouris carbon-free energy comes from Callaway.
newthinking
(3,982 posts)Nuclear energy is a progress trap.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)must be backed up financially by the federal government. Because it's the most poisonous of all fuels.
jpak
(41,756 posts)to take care of their spent fuel that made them millions of dollars.
Expert that
jwirr
(39,215 posts)no one wants it in their back yard. Few realize that we all have it to a certain degree in our back yard.
jalan48
(13,841 posts)Buy more shit.
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)Geothermal. MO has a long way to go and has to get their without more nuclear.
reddread
(6,896 posts)but my God can they produce megawatts of bullshit.
right on schedule.
at least someone is doing their job.
bananas
(27,509 posts)True, true!
LOL!
blm
(113,010 posts)Defending Trump earlier today in another thread.
bananas
(27,509 posts)There's no "breaking news" here.
I alerted on it but it hasn't been locked yet.
Maybe there aren't enough hosts for this forum?
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Until we can decontaminate Fukushima, Chernobyl, Hanford etc etc etc and store nuclear waste safely, nukes are too dangerous and expensive way to boil water.
shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)No it could not be the best bet to fight climate change - ever! Solar and wind are the best bets. Add in some geothermal and tidal energy and now we're making progress. Concentrated energy production (and I throw concentrated solar into this pile too) is always about a few controlling what is needed by the many to make a big dirty buck. There's a reason why we all have PC's and not wires connected to a bunch of mainframes. Decentralized power production is safer, makes far more sense and won't lead to another Fukushima. Funny how nuke plant stories can run without a mention of what the status of Fukushima might be? I say might be, because there are three cores that cannot be located and we still don't really know what the damage is or will be.
blm
(113,010 posts).
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Their plants would have been operational for a few decades and we would still be storing their waste. Or not.
Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)in humans.
That's likely the only way to stop the climate change, getting rid of us.
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