On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:44:42 +0000 (UTC), thunder
wrote:

On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:14:57 -0400, Sarah Ehrett wrote:


When someone can successfully power a medium sized US city 24/7 using
solar and wind then I'll be impressed. Until then we're tied to oil,
coal, and natural gas because the environmental nutters are against
nuclear power.

It isn't environmental nutters, it is cost. Nuclear is expensive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nu...ting_costs.png

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At some point environmental, safety and cost all morph into one big
issue. Today's nuclear plants are safe 99.99999% of the time. It
turns out that is not enough however. There are now hundreds of
square miles of land in Japan and the former USSR that are totally
uninhabitable. There are additional thousands of people who will die
prematurely, and/or have their quality of life severely impacted.
Both of those accidents are flukes of course, but they are the flukes
that prove Murphy's law.