From the Fresno Bee:
The Fresno Utility Commission's 11 members were directed last week by City Hall to unleash their imaginations in coming up with ideas to fix the financial mess at the Public Utilities Department.Technorati tags: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power, Environment, Energy, Politics, Technology, Economics, Fresno, California
Commission Chairman John Hutson has taken this broad charge to heart -- he wants the city to consider building a nuclear power plant at the city's wastewater treatment plant west of downtown.
Hutson is urging the commission to study the feasibility of building a 400- to 600-megawatt plant as a possible long-term solution to the city's energy needs and Public Utilities' money problems.
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As for the transport sector, adding new nuclear to the grid will help take pressure off of natural gas supplies, freeing it up for use in natural gas powered vehicles.
Finally, nuclear is currently the only way to generate hydrogen in sufficient quantities without emissions -- hydrogen that could be used in fuel cells in the transport sector.
This is insane!
The best thing for this are woudl be "manure to electricty converters", which pay for themselves in three years, provides the energyneeds fo farms and surroudnign neighbors free, and ahas a by-product of mehtanol, which is a clean vehicle fuel and does not put the nergy crsis into our food cahin.market like ehtnaol. Waste to enrgy is the bet way togo. This would also clean up 40% od our locxal air pollution.
DEMS and SWARTZNEGGER have put a 4% limit on the debit/credit meters while free enterprise alone demands we let it goto the level it can. If ever ther was a smart invesstment these Dairy POwer Porgrams would be it.
Nuclear waste is not a solved probelm and we should freeeze all nuclear production. Diablo Canyojn had a major explosion just yeateday and of cours eas they always do they d=said not radioactive release, Ha!
C'mon people nuclear reactors is liek settingup nuclear bombs in our back yard for terrorists!
Mr. McErlain said that Nuclear energy helped displace use of oil for electricity in the 1970's. Did he mention that the U.S. has not built a Nuclear Power Plant since 1973 because we have no plan, no place for disposing of nuclear waste. Let us remember Cherynobl, Three Mile Island and the constant potential danger of existing power plants.
I hope that proponents of this project continue to research all before breaking ground.
Nuclear power is safe, the waste issue is an easy engineering problem, and the technology is nearly cost-competitive with coal, and blows solar away.
If you lived in an area with as much air pollution as Fresno, or had a decent understanding of the science, you would support nuclear in the valley as much as we do.
Until now, my concern was that the 40+/- city-wide "secret" I uncovered, was a threat to our water source. When no one would listen to me I created a web page with pictures and more information. Now that I am reading about nuclear power, I am even more terrified. Please look at this and tell me how this ties in to an already horrible situation: www.myspace.com/marlalk or http://blog.myspace.com/marlalk