Energy Solutions for America

Jack Spencer, a Research Fellow in the Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, explains how nuclear energy is safe and how its byproducts can be used to create more energy.

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[cabidas]

Kaboooooom

[nicoreinke]

he talks shit, you now it!

[hawkermustang]

Blowbama is a dumb ass!!

[rllang01]

This debate never ends... the sparing between the pro-nuke & pro-renewable energy crowds goes on and on and on... in the mean time our current energy resources dwindle... The arguing points in this debate have become repetitive and useless... This debate is more than 30 years old and we have but barely nudged in any direction. Both sides need to make a consensus so that we can move forward. We do not have the luxury of time.

[riparious]

I would not let my CPA work on my car, or let my mechanic do my taxes. Why should we listen to an economist about the technical aspects of nuclear power? Would he raise his family next to Chernobyl?

Nuclear may seem powerful, but it is limited compared to proven, safe, and inexhaustible sources of energy such as geothermal, solar, wind, biomass, hydro, and title power.

[pourunejeunefemme]

Hey Milofonbil, if nuclear EPs are bad, then why does France emit less CO2 annually (by a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE margin) than any other G8 member state?

[milofonbil]

I wish that were the only problem that Reagan created. Some of the big ones are: 1) The war on the middle class and 2) Trickle-on economics.

Bush's home is passive-solar, it has PV panels for electricity and heated with geothermal. Meanwhile he cuts DOE funding for renewables.

I look towards Obama putting them back on. Even if they only supply pre-warming of the water for the hot water supply.

[milofonbil]

I Googled 'how much uranium does United States have' The only reserves you can really count are the ones in Wyoming and New Mexico that we know are out there. The rest is someone's guestimate. Claiming you can breed and reprocessing fall into the science fiction category because the electric power industry does not want to invest in building plants.

Many of the US mines are shut down because the low grade ores are really too expensive to mine. This is why the US imports 84% of its uranium.

[mmarshall76]

The fact that Japan and France don't have sufficient domestic uranium stores is not indicative of potential similar issues in other countries, ours included. Google 'how much uranium does United States have' to get some good hits on big name studies indicating the U.S. has plenty on hand domestically to take care of us for quite some time to come.

Secondly, renewables aren't ready to use in mass. Wind comes & goes, tides wane, & geothermal isn't in mass production. We need real solutions now.

[milofonbil]

You are so right, a truly Christian President, a nuclear engineer - President Carter warned us all.

Things have not changed. We still have an energy crisis although Reagan took the solar panels down off of the White House and canceled all of the alternative energy projects at our national labs. We could have been on top of renewable energy. But now we get more of the same - more nuclear mess from people that like maximum cash extraction and give corporate welfare to oil companies.