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Originally Posted by teshannon
CD,
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. |
I understand that, but it will take 15 years to get ANWR on line, and that same investment would be better suited to other sources that could actually provide, and substantiate, more than 5%.
Also, the high oil costs are what SPURS this nation into actually doing something. I guarantee you that if you were paying $1.50 for gas right now, there would be NO talk of solar or wind or nuclear or any other alternate source. Yet, if there had been 15 years ago, we would be in a different positio ntoday.
Regarding Florida and California and such, I owould love to hear the comments of those that sail offshore in Texas and LA on that. Those guys that run those platforms take horrendous care and thought into what type of navigational hazards they make for maritime traffic.
Go pull a chart on the known oil platforms in the gulf. Looks like someone shot the map with a shotgun. You will sit there and look at it and think: How am I ever going to get my boat through that!
- CD