Energy Reform: Nuclear Power and Carbon Caps

[patricepainchaud1]

No Cap & trade. Instead: Gradually cap the world production of fossil fuels allowed to be burned. As soon as industries around the world knows that they'll be facing limits, you bet they'll soon turn to alternative energies.

[blackiron60]

To hell with fossil fuels - everyone participating in this debate is a fossil!

[art88]

The devil is in Christy, she is a straight up liar, her poor choices and politically motivated decisions regarding health safety have killed and made to suffer many Americans. She belongs in jail and for life and after she expires there should be a special place in hell waiting for her and her kind.

[PonderLust]

The fastest way to emissions free energy is to create an environment that is attractive to potential urban and rural energy farmers. If you put more energy on the grid than you take off, you should be paid at a rate that will earn a profit. Two things will speed things up. Government secured loans to pay for energy generators, and a government regulated price per unit of power. These have to be tied together so when farmers signs the paperwork they know the system will pay for itself.

[PonderLust]

No cap and trade. Tax cabon!

Also, electric high speed trains built roughly parallel to the federal interstate highway system can serve as an energy transmission backbone that would be accessible to energy farmers anywhere in the US, and it would cut down on air traffic.

[Slug99]

Sure if the plant fails somehow, it's pretty bad. But the problem with coal plants is that they are pollutant by their very nature of burning coal and releasing various kinds of chemicals which over time hurt the environment by raising acidity levels in lakes and such.

Hiroshima wasn't a nuclear power plant failing, it was a nuclear BOMB detonating. Plants don't explode into mushroom cloud. Also no one is saying that we should dump the waste into rivers or something, that would be stupid.

[Slug99]

Nuclear power is much cleaner and safer than coal, which is really the whole point.

[PonderLust]

Nuclear power is not clean and not renewable.

[freesk8]

Putting a high price on carbon will kill more poor people than the slowly rising temperatures and sea levels over the next 100 years.

[SpiralOut11235]

What pollution?

[walkerindarkness]

evolutionary molten salt reactors are the way of the near future. after 2035 we may have fusion.

[NatureLegalized]

plenty of BS to go around here....

[mattblackcat]

1:20 ... oooh body language ;-)