Comments on: CA’s nuclear power in doubt https://calwatchdog.com/2015/12/01/cas-nuclear-power-in-doubt/ Fri, 04 Dec 2015 02:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ted E Mind of your Godhead Ted https://calwatchdog.com/2015/12/01/cas-nuclear-power-in-doubt/#comment-119544 Fri, 04 Dec 2015 02:09:22 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=84761#comment-119544 San Clemente is now just a nuke waste dump with regular leaks and still NO study of health/cancer effects–

thanks alot nuke industry and stupid conservatives…..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

]]> By: Spurwing Plover https://calwatchdog.com/2015/12/01/cas-nuclear-power-in-doubt/#comment-119527 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 21:51:48 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=84761#comment-119527 Now as long as the hollyweed crowd and those annoying pinheads from GREENPEACE and THE SIERRA CLUB oppose it after Hanoi Jane made her putrid movie THE CHINA SYNDROME

]]> By: Itachee https://calwatchdog.com/2015/12/01/cas-nuclear-power-in-doubt/#comment-119517 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 17:53:46 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=84761#comment-119517 I was a student (engineering) at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo durig the late 1970s when Diablo was being built. And we were hearing the same environmentalist diatribe even back then. To me it plays like a nroken record. One thing many people don’t realize is that nuke plants have been an integral part of pumped storage hydro projects of which there are several in CA. Those pumped storage hydro projects are a vital part of meeting peaking electrical demands during the summer due to their ability to respond in just seconds to changing electrical loads. And they are operationally linked to nuke plants which have provided the power for over night pump back operations that will have to be replaced by fossil fuel . generation.

In addition overall conventional hydro generation from dams is decreasing due to environmental regulations requiring additional flows for fish during times of the year when releases for hydro would normally be less. In short that results is less water being available for generation at other times of the year. There are also several cses where hydro dams ahve been and are planed to be removed for fish.

Sooner or later CA is going to start having rolling black outs due to a lack of generation, especially when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.

]]> By: ricky65 https://calwatchdog.com/2015/12/01/cas-nuclear-power-in-doubt/#comment-119504 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 06:04:39 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=84761#comment-119504 In reply to Chapeert.

Well, maybe so but at my age I have trouble reading by candlelight.
Besides, I find the modern cave too cold and drafty for my liking.

]]> By: Chapeert https://calwatchdog.com/2015/12/01/cas-nuclear-power-in-doubt/#comment-119503 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 05:01:37 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=84761#comment-119503 In reply to ricky65.

I would probably agree with you if I hadn’t spent the past decade in a modern off grid home. Technology has come along way in 10 years.

]]> By: ricky65 https://calwatchdog.com/2015/12/01/cas-nuclear-power-in-doubt/#comment-119499 Tue, 01 Dec 2015 21:52:33 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=84761#comment-119499 In reply to Chapeert.

Great. Thanks for your contribution.
So as soon as you can figure out how to make the sun shine all day and the wind to blow 24 hrs a day call us back.

]]> By: Chapeert https://calwatchdog.com/2015/12/01/cas-nuclear-power-in-doubt/#comment-119488 Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:22:23 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=84761#comment-119488 “Fukushima” should be all we have to say about this topic. Even though Western Media and our Government avoids the subject, it has been contributing Nuclear waste to the pacific daily since March 2011 with no viable end in site? (Lots of bad things happening with the sea life being blamed on everything but Fukushima) Lastly, why on earth would we want to further a technology where the waste product must be isolated and stored for thousands of years? That alone should be enough to move forward with new energy sources that don’t harm the earth or the inhabitants thereof.

]]> By: Ronald https://calwatchdog.com/2015/12/01/cas-nuclear-power-in-doubt/#comment-119487 Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:14:02 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=84761#comment-119487 Worldwide, fossil fuels of oil, natural gas, and coal provide more than 75% of energy consumption. Worldwide there is an increase in nuclear power to meet energy consumption growth requirements in the world, but in California we’ve had a big drop in energy supplied by nuclear due to the closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), and now with PG&E’s Diablo Canyon plant, the state’s last nuclear plant is in the crosshairs for closure. Thus, there will be more reliance in California placed on the fossil fuels and renewables to meet the forecasted energy outlook for California.

To turn our backs now on the energy and chemicals from oil, coal and natural gas that have industrialized the world in favor of more expensive, intermittent technologies of solar and wind to replace nuclear to augment the electrical grid almost guarantees that Californians will pay more for electric energy, while the vast majority of the people of developing countries will be relegated to poverty and poverty-prone conditions for the rest of their days. It’s not just “Big Oil” that would suffer – it would be all of us.

Eliminating fossil fuels use in transportation and the infrastructures that support life as we know it would mean going back to horses, bicycles and walking or woefully inadequate, impractical mass transit, and taking freight movement back to the nineteenth century.

The next big challenge for humanity is mitigating climate change responsibly and cost-effectively. Achieving this must involve an international strategy that realistically includes conserving fossil fuels as a precious resource for all of mankind while diversifying our global energy portfolio to take advantage of evolving technologies and alternative sources. Let’s hope that future generations will be up to the challenge facing humanity to mitigate climate change responsibly and cost-effectively.

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