Wind Power Puffery

Is it true that the French dispose of their nuclear wastes by sending them to Russia?
Will Russia accept ours? If it's not free, we may spend as much to dispose of our energy waste as we currently do to buy oil.
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Why is there such an ingrained irrational paranoia about nuclear energy and waste disposal among some Americans. Importantly also why is somehow okay for millions of Navy sailors to have served for nearly forty years aboard nuclear power American aircraft carriers and nuclear powered submarines and air force personnel to handle nuclear bombs but some Americans will not consider even remotely assume any risks involved with nuclear power. It is okay for our servicemen to be exposed to alleged risks but not Democrats who oppose nuclear power. This paranoia is particular evident with the Democratic people acceptance of risks that are associated with other aspects of modern American living. Forty thousand people die every year in the United States in auto accidents but there is no outcry to ban all automobiles in the United
States. Bridges have collapsed recently in Minnesota and tunnels ceilings have fallen but there is no consensus on eliminating bridges. There have been airplane crashes that have also involved injuries on the ground but there is no outcry to ban air travel. There have been repeated rail and ship accidents but no outcry to ban railroads or ship travel. The irrational fear involving nuclear power and waste disposal has no justification. American people undergo multiple medical and dental xrays and CT scans yearly and have no fear. TSA airport screeners and medical staff work daily around xray equipment, fluoroscopes, and CT machines and do not experience adverse health consequences as a result of their work exposure. There were no documented adverse health events associated with the Three Mile Island release of minor radiation in the 1970???s and no payments for health losses were ever made involving lawsuits related to that accident. The containment vessel held at Three Mile Island. In light of most Americans acceptance of risks associated with automobiles, trains, planes, and ships, the fear on the part of some Americans of nuclear power can not be viewed as rational. John McCain's proposals to build 45 new nuclear power plants along with his other energy proposals on conservation and renewable energy will help America achieve relative energy independence in the near term and long term.

Affordable Energy is not a Zero Sum Game
The Hill by Ohio GOP Rep. Steve Chabot Aug. 13, 2008

The debate on energy has reached a tipping point. For months, calls to allow a vote on domestic drilling have been stonewalled by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but yesterday she conceded that the House ???can have a vote.???

The clear temptation is to vilify the Speaker for ignoring the will of the American constituency for so long; however, the focus should now be on the future of our energy policy, not on partisan politics.

The search for sustainable energy sources should not be a zero sum game. What we have are realistic and substantive proposals available for debate that emphasize both alternative sources like wind and solar, as well as environmentally responsible approaches to increasing domestic oil and gas production. What we need is for the Speaker to call Congress back from vacation to show her party is willing to admit that the status quo and proper tire pressure are insufficient for an energy policy.

Today I joined House Republicans on the floor for the informal session we???ve been holding since Congress adjourned almost two weeks ago. While some have derided our actions as a stunt, they seem to have brought about a change in the tide. Oil and gas are still critical to American families and our economy, and the time has come for Congress to deliver solutions.

America???s energy security is a bipartisan matter. Let???s get something done.

Until recently, I was a strong anti-supporter of nuclear enegry. Though, I need to do more personal research to confirm. It appears the French have developed a new nuclear reactor which can not over heat and products less waste. If this information is correct, I could support this form of nuclear energy.

Until then, I am a spark supporter of solar power plants in the Mojava Desert and wind power in the Midwest, which employ local residents first. Both systems would require America to update its electrical infrastructure something that has been ingored for too long. I also believe there is great potential in biofuels especially when kenaf is used instead of corn.

Both candidates in my option will do little to promote energy independence. They have their hands (campaigns) to well funded from oil corporations to offer any real change or help. Such change should be sought in a third party candidate.

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If you think about it John McCain plan for forty-five new nuclear power plants is reasonable, needed and attainable. Our current 108 nuclear power plants supply twenty (20) percent of our electricity requirements. This is amazing considering that it has been thirty years since there has been new construction on new nuclear power plants anywhere in the United States. Construction on new nuclear power plants has occurred throughout the world but not in the United States thanks to Democratic leadership. In France, nuclear power supplies 80 percent of their electricity needs. Because 108 nuclear power plants are generating twenty percent of our needs, an additional 45 nuclear power plants will only increase the percentage of nuclear power to roughly 28 percent of our needs well short of French eighty percent nuclear power generation of electricity. John McCain proposals are reasonable and will help lead us to energy independence. Democrats under the leadership of Barack Obama want to study the issue for another 30 years. By that time the only remaining United States builder of nuclear power plants General Electric will have gone the way of Westinghouse and sold its nuclear construction division to a foreign owned company Toshiba Corporation of Japan. Given the Democratic led hostile business environment for nuclear power in the United States, we will have no United States owned companies capable of building nuclear power plants.

The reality is that one nuclear power plant will have a greater contribution to our energy independence than all the contributions of solar, wind, and thermal energy combined. One nuclear power plant will put out more energy than all the solar, wind, and thermal production together even when the wind is blowing which is not all the time.. Only the proposals of John McCain on nuclear power, offshore drilling, wind, and solar energy will make the idea of United States energy independence a reality.

We have about 10% of the worlds while we consume 40-50% the math doesn't work and for nuclear power plants, if we have 108 that produce 20% of our electric, what makes anyone think that 45 more will produce more than more 10% more? We can have wind mills that can produce 20-30% built in less than 2 years along with solar we can be 40-50% self sufficient in no time! What would you say same if a nuclear power plant was built close to your back yard? How safe would you feel? Would you feel safe if 3 nuclear power plants where built in your state? Would you feel ok if some of these companies that own these plants lacked on their security? Do you know how long this would take to build on of these plants? You haven???t even begun to answer these questions and many others, yet you are gung ho on these power plants! Have you thought of these questions? How about new clean coal technology or how about all these other fuels that are abundant in our country, like wind, solar, vegetable, and water that we already have? Where does switch grass come in to play? Bush talked about switch grass a few years ago, yet we haven???t seen anybody go to this alternative fuel! I just don???t understand why the Republicans are so against these new technologies and want to go to the old standards fossil fuel and nuclear power? Maybe there is no one giving them money in these new alterative ways of fueling our country and keeping it clean for our children! I guess money does talk, look at McCain, he is taking millions from the oil companies to push drilling which he earlier opposed!

We have about 10% of the worlds while we consume 40-50% the math doesn't work and for nuclear power plants, if we have 108 that produce 20% of our electric, what makes anyone think that 45 more will produce more than more 10% more? We can have wind mills that can produce 20-30% built in less than 2 years along with solar we can be 40-50% self sufficient in no time! What would you say same if a nuclear power plant was built close to your back yard? How safe would you feel? Would you feel safe if 3 nuclear power plants where built in your state? Would you feel ok if some of these companies that own these plants lacked on their security? Do you know how long this would take to build on of these plants? You haven???t even begun to answer these questions and many others, yet you are gung ho on these power plants! Have you thought of these questions? How about new clean coal technology or how about all these other fuels that are abundant in our country, like wind, solar, vegetable, and water that we already have? Where does switch grass come in to play? Bush talked about switch grass a few years ago, yet we haven???t seen anybody go to this alternative fuel! I just don???t understand why the Republicans are so against these new technologies and want to go to the old standards fossil fuel and nuclear power? Maybe there is no one giving them money in these new alterative ways of fueling our country and keeping it clean for our children! I guess money does talk, look at McCain, he is taking millions from the oil companies to push drilling which he earlier opposed!

10-for-10. The MCCain energy plan and fact check. Winning by "left to interpretation".

If you think about it John McCain plan for forty-five new nuclear power plants is reasonable, needed and attainable. Our current 108 nuclear power plants supply twenty (20) percent of our electricity requirements. This is amazing considering that it has been thirty years since there has been new construction on new nuclear power plants anywhere in the United States. Construction on new nuclear power plants has occurred throughout the world but not in the United States thanks to Democratic leadership. In France, nuclear power supplies 80 percent of their electricity needs. Because 108 nuclear power plants are generating twenty percent of our needs, an additional 45 nuclear power plants will only increase the percentage of nuclear power to roughly 28 percent of our needs well short of French eighty percent nuclear power generation of electricity. John McCain proposals are reasonable and will help lead us to energy independence. Democrats under the leadership of Barack Obama want to study the issue for another 30 years. By that time the only remaining United States builder of nuclear power plants General Electric will have gone the way of Westinghouse and sold its nuclear construction division to a foreign owned company Toshiba Corporation of Japan. Given the Democratic led hostile business environment for nuclear power in the United States, we will have no United States owned companies capable of building nuclear power plants.

The reality is that one nuclear power plant will have a greater contribution to our energy independence than all the contributions of solar, wind, and thermal energy combined. One nuclear power plant will put out more energy than all the solar, wind, and thermal production together even when the wind is blowing which is not all the time.. Only the proposals of John McCain on nuclear power, offshore drilling, wind, and solar energy will make the idea of United States energy independence a reality.

The way to get control of energy prices is to produce more and use less. Ethanol made from corn is a joke! It produces little or no net energy but results in higher food prices and farmers get rich!

The dipsticks in Washinton are on vacation, thanks to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

Fix the problem, export Pelosi and Reid. Implement offshore drilling, ANWR drilling, nuclear, coal, wind, and solar power. Bring those exported jobs back home with energy produced by Americans in America!