Looking at NRG and New Nuclear in Texas

Another diarist at DailyKos (not our friend N Nadir) drove 80 miles to attend a public hearing on NRG's potential plans for new nuclear build in Texas.

He sounds bullish on nuclear energy:

Expanding electricity capacity in Texas from nuclear, wind, and potentially in the future, solar, while pushing hard for conservation is our only hope for a fossil fuel phase-out. Not only are these measures necessary on their own, they provide the necessary foundation for transitioning our transportation network to fully-electric or transitional-synthetic fuels (e.g. DME using CO2 from atmospheric/process sequestration). Unlike other long-term movements towards a sustainable, fossil-fuel free, more socioeconomically just Texas, changing electricity production sources is relatively "behind-the-scenes," and is a path that can be pursued vigorously and immediately because it requires no large, structural rearrangements in society or our built environment. As such, it has a high probability of producing results and does not require the much more complex and difficult consensus that will be required to rebuild our transportation network, suburban development model, health-care networks, and education systems.

Be sure to read the rest right now.

Comments

Ian Rees said…

hi, and thankyou for the link. I'm cringing a little bit because of some syntactical changes I wish I'd made in that that paragraph :)

July 2, 2007 at 5:50 PM

Space Fission said…

College students in engineering programs take note. If you want a job in the nuclear industry, head for Texas because that's where the industry is lighting up.

http://djysrv.blogspot.com/2007/07/texas-plans-to-keep-lights-on-with-new.html

July 6, 2007 at 2:33 PM

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