Nuclear Halloween

SEED Coalition, Public Citizen, Sierra Club and numerous other organizations held a Halloween-themed press conference outside the headquarters of energy companies that are proposing new nuclear plants for Texas.

Numbering 8 units total, this is the largest amount of new reactors planned anywhere in the country.

They are unnecessary, incredibly expensive and extremely dangerous. The future of energy generation lies in true renewable energy sources and our bridge to that technology is energy efficiency.

There is no need for new power plants whether they be coal-fired or nuclear powered.

For more information on stopping the nuke plants go to:

http://www.NukeFreeTexas.org

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[jrynef]

the is the dumbest thing i have ever seen. stupid liberals. get out of our state

[PublicCitizenTexas]

@jrynef "Our" state? What exactly does that mean? Glad to see freedom-hating, anti-constitutional rights people spreading hate and fear on YouTube. Good on ya.

[tuttt99]

"...and we used to control the LIGHTNING!"

-Astronaut Rick Delanty

Lucifer's Hammer, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

[PublicCitizenTexas]

I suppose I'll answer a fictional quote with a non-fiction one:

"If we use fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly.

This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations."

- Nikola Tesla, 1915

[swat22a]

You people need to get a life! Worry about your self!!

[hotFusionReaction]

"Profit" as you are calling it IS WHAT DRIVES NEED, dumbass.

The fact that Nuclear Power Plants generate a larger profit than Coal fired plants simply means THEY ARE MORE EFFICIENT and require LESS funding.

The less funding something requires, the more of that thing you can afford to build.

Why in the Hell should a company build a THOUSAND acres of wind turbines when they can by ONE Nuclear Power Plant and call it a day?!

[Lunargolfball]

wow, how childish can these people be. Go Nukes!!

[tuttt99]

GO NUKES!!

[PublicCitizenTexas]

How is that pertinent? Large facilities such as hospitals can easily get non-interuptable, distributed generation from renewables or CHP facilities on site . Far more efficient and clean than trying to run such facilities off the grid.

It's despicable how you try and turn a very simple comparison of energy sources into some ridiculously over-emotional straw-man argument about how we need nukes/coal to keep people alive. You should be ashamed, but people like you never are, are you?

[tuttt99]

Tell that to a critical patient on a ventilator in a hospital ICU

[PublicCitizenTexas]

Nowhere have I argued for coal fired power. What is your point? The sun contains more power than all the uranium on the planet billions of times over.

Energy concentration is not the issue. Uranium mining MAY be (don't know for sure) a smaller negative impact per mw generated than coal - but it still has a far greater one than any renewable.

Like all propaganda-pushers you conveniently ignore everything I say that you don't have an answer for and spin away on some irrelevant tangent.

[PublicCitizenTexas]

Wow, you've really drunk the koolaid. Next your going to start claiming that radiation is healthy for you - like they were trying to do in the 50's - they called it "Vitamin R." Go peddle your nuclear-shill propaganda elsewhere.