Fight Climate Change--Go Nuclear!
Yes, we've all heard it before. Embrace nuclear technology and you'll fight dangerous climate change. Sure there's no emissions from nuclear plants unless you count all the oil used to build a billion dollar power plant. But we won't count that, will we? Bigger is better! Long live modernism!
But here's a new spin on the old refrain based on another handy use of nuclear technology. Now this is something that George W. Bush could really get behind.
Labels: Nuclear
posted by Mentat Oom at 5:18 PM
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We can't have a "base load" system driven by intermittent wind or solar power. So where will the base load (primary supply) come from? Hydro is maxed out? It is true that conservation and other "demand-side" management measures needs to be promoted more aggressively, but that saving alone won’t be enough to meet future demand. Consider that even Tim Flannery and some progressive European nations support nuclear power as part of an overall mix of supply solutions. Nuclear, despite its obvious shortcoming seems destined to be part of Ontario’s supply mix. – Baby Anthony
5:33 PM
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