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Unfortunately Harry Reid and the Dems are doing everything they can to discourage building nuke plants. If someone placed an oder tomorrow it would be 8 to 10 years before a nuke came on
line. With current technologies solar and wind are not even close to being a reliable energy source. At best they can provide a very small means of helping with peak demands but the environmental cost in land use alone is tremendous. We're not talking one or two windmills, we're talking farms that stretch for miles. Everyone will want one in the back yard!
The technology to store the energy on off peak hours does not exist today and it will be many years before it exists, if ever. So the bottom
line is we are saying the same thing, there is no short term answer.
No one here has said you go after the oil to the exclusion of everything else. Just the opposite- you try to get nukes to be more viable econominally, you continue research on solar and wind, and you begin to build more drilling and refining capacity. I read that there is oil off Florida and California and there is more oil in the Gulf. You go after it all and take what you can get. If you don't we'll be sitting here 15 years from now having the same discussion.