San Onofre shutdown will mean tight electricity supplies

[AtheistCrusader]

109. Disagree.

If you're going to parade something around as 'carbon free', it better be. Nuclear power isn't. Neither is my beloved hydro-electric. The concrete investment has enormous up front CO2 investment. Decaying material in the reservoir also releases CO2. I cannot claim it is 'carbon free'. It's a fantastically better proposition than coal, but it is not and cannot be carbon free. Not even the 40mw that diverts some water from the Snoqualmie Falls, that powers my home. Still not carbon free, even though it's better than even a reservoir based dam that backs it up when it isn't online.

Much like the wind power folks (of which I have sort of become one) must recognize the environmental impact of mining for the copper and other earths materials that go into such a large distributed network of generators, instead of a few centralized, massive and better utilized generators.

If you don't recognize the negatives, and make allowances for/acceptable trade-offs, you're not really honestly in the conversation.