The 30-year itch America’s nuclear industry struggles to get off the floor

[kristopher]

37. That's a lot easier than actually addressing the information...

...that shows your premise to be flawed.

"There will be wind farms from Canada to Mexico, from the out into the Atlantic to out into the Pacific - and guess what, contrary to your narrow vision of reality, the wind does blow all the time. Solar will also be everywhere. As will geothermal, and wave/current/tidal, and large scale hydro and small scale hydro, and biomass plants and plants running on ethanol, biodiesel and bio-methane. The biggest challenge facing us isn't storage, it is modernizing the grid.

If you want to deal with climate change, then nuclear is NOT the way to go. The primary reason I'm so dedicated to identifying the false claims of the nuclear industry is because I want to do something about climate change and nuclear is a part of the problem, not a part of the solution. We have to move away from the centralized thermal grid system to one that is distributed and based on renewables. i provided you the Grist article which explains some of why the two systems are incompatible, but you chose to ignore and continue to rant about something you clearly do not understand."

Here is what happens when you start linking various sites together:


Original paper here at National Academy of Sciences website: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/03/29/0909075107.abstract

Smart Grid Heavy Hitters – Jon Wellinghoff, Chair of US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Jon Wellinghoff is the Chairman of the United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) – the FERC is the agency that regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, and oil. As such, the FERC was the agency which Google Energy applied to for its licence to buy and sell electricity on the wholesale market, for example.

Shortly after his appointment as Chair of the FERC in 2009 by Barack Obama, Chairman Wellinghoff made headlines when he said, "No new nuclear or coal plants may ever be needed in the United States… renewables like wind, solar and biomass will provide enough energy to meet baseload capacity and future energy demands."...

http://greenmonk.net/smart-grid-heavy-hitters-jon-wellinghoff-chair-of-us-federal-energy-regulatory-commission-part-1/
http://greenmonk.net/smart-grid-heavy-hitters-jon-wellinghoff-chair-of-us-federal-energy-regulatory-commission-part-2/

Some reading for you:
http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Library/E08-01_NuclearIllusion
http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Library/E09-01_NuclearPowerClimateFixOrFolly