Libs stance on nuclear power?

[Jim in CT]

in france, the #1 producer of energy are the nuclear power plants. i’m curious to know if the climate change advocates here, support
the building of those plants? it’s a sincere question, no sarcasm or anything...

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

in france, the #1 producer of energy are the nuclear power plants. i’m curious to know if the climate change advocates here, support
the building of those plants? it’s a sincere question, no sarcasm or anything...

I am OK with it, particularly to power dense urban areas, and done in conjunction with wind and solar as well.

[Got Stripers]

I too see it as a need if done safely and with good solid planning, however when a plant like Plymouth would be typically powered down and buttoned up in 6-8 years, it worries me when a company comes in saying they will do it in 2-3.

[Nebe]

I’m all for it but it needs to be done right and maintained right. It’s the ultimate green energy source for when the sun sets and the wind dies.
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[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Nebe

I’m all for it but it needs to be done right and maintained right. It’s the ultimate green energy source for when the sun sets and the wind dies.
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even when the sun is out and the wind is blowing, solar and wind aren’t all that efficient. they’re clean, but not able to produce
nearly enough. and my solar panels on my house killed a lot of birds. a lot.
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[wdmso]

Nuke power is to expensive the waste issue hasnt been resolved .. we cant even protect critical infrastructure.. see drone attacks on Saudis oil operations .. nuke power pants look great on paper and it ends there .. France get 40% from nukes but is the size of Texas.. it should be a possibility but theres no will for it
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[Nebe]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

even when the sun is out and the wind is blowing, solar and wind aren’t all that efficient. they’re clean, but not able to produce
nearly enough. and my solar panels on my house killed a lot of birds. a lot.
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Apples and oranges, but I have 260 watts of solar on my boat. I can live on my boat from June to October if I want and run the fridge and all the lights solely on solar and a 400 amp hour battery bank.

The technology is there. It’s the cost that is prohibitive.
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[wdmso]

On a national scale, the Smithsonian's migratory bird center estimated the number of deaths to be between 100 million and one billion birds annually
just an FYI. By skyscrapers and building alone
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[Sea Dangles]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Apples and oranges, but I have 260 watts of solar on my boat. I can live on my boat from June to October if I want and run the fridge and all the lights solely on solar and a 400 amp hour battery bank.

The technology is there. It’s the cost that is prohibitive.
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Not when the government subsidizes it.
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[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Apples and oranges, but I have 260 watts of solar on my boat. I can live on my boat from June to October if I want and run the fridge and all the lights solely on solar and a 400 amp hour battery bank.

The technology is there. It’s the cost that is prohibitive.
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there isn’t enough space to put as many panels as would
be needed to power 300 million people. your boat doesn’t have central air or a microwave or a washer/dryer does it?

we use a to of electricity, my wife
and kids are home in the summer, cranking the a/c and the electric pool heater. the august before i got panels, my monthly electric bill was $550, so we put panels on my entire roof ( we have no tall trees, get a ton of sun), it produces almost exactly what we use. but it killed a lot of
birds, and the panels
need to be disposed of
someday.
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[scottw]

save the birds

"Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays - "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair.
Federal wildlife investigators who visited the BrightSource Energy plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, reporting an average of one "streamer" every two minutes, are urging California officials to halt the operator's application to build a still-bigger version."

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

Not when the government subsidizes it.
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That’s socialism, you commie pinko
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[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by scottw

save the birds

"Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays - "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair.
Federal wildlife investigators who visited the BrightSource Energy plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, reporting an average of one "streamer" every two minutes, are urging California officials to halt the operator's application to build a still-bigger version."

first spring after we installed
our panels, we found 3-5 dead, cooked birds in our pool and on our deck, every day. it was beyond disgusting. the company agreed to come out and out screens up around the panels to keep them
out, not before we scraped at least 100 dead birds off the deck.

better for the environment? the birds would say no.
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