The Baltimore Sun has an interesting op-ed by Jack Spencer, a research fellow in nuclear energy and Nicolas Loris, a researcher at the Heritage Foundation. Noting that Allegheny Energy suffered a slight embarrassment after sending customers two compact fluorescent light bulbs - and then charging them for the bulbs (they later relented and picked up the bill) - Spencer and Loris focus on common-sense reasons for Maryland to look seriously at nuclear energy as a way to meet Governor Martin O'Malley's goal of supplying 20 percent of their energy from renewable fuel sources by 2022. Spencer and Loris take a dimmish view of conservation - that would be the conservative Heritage Foundation talking - but the article makes an excellent case. (The article does not mention Maryland's Calvert Cliffs plant, so this may be an op-ed working its way through different local newspapers.)
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Nuclear Sun Shine
Posted by Mark Flanagan at 12:05 PM
Labels: electricity, Maryland, Nuclear Energy, nuclear power, nuclear power plant
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Let's see, 20% from "renewables", eh? OK, I don't think they'll do that well, but let's assume they do. So where do they go for the other 80% of their need? It seems to me that four-fifths of the problem remains unanswered.
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