tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post4608311396731162928..comments2024-03-07T02:00:01.582-05:00Comments on NEI Nuclear Notes: Union of Concerned Scientists Needs to Do a Bit More Research on Their Nuclear ClaimsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-60066922837197084772010-02-17T07:16:42.603-05:002010-02-17T07:16:42.603-05:00sault, why did you bring up CBO? There was no ment...sault, why did you bring up CBO? There was no mention of them in the post.David Bradishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02439638522932781068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-56308858270711330752010-02-16T18:16:08.686-05:002010-02-16T18:16:08.686-05:00Do your research before you criticize others:
CBO...Do your research before you criticize others:<br /><br />CBO considers the risk of default on such a loan guarantee to be very high--well above 50 percent. The key factor accounting for this risk is that we expect that the plant would be uneconomic to operate because of its high construction costs, relative to other electricity generation sources. In addition, this project would have significant technical risk because it would be the first of a new generation of nuclear plants, as well as project delay and interruption risk due to licensing and regulatory proceedings.<br /><br />http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=4206&type=0<br /><br />Written in 2003 so you can't claim the CBO was a bunch of liberal hippies then either!saulthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15727025430687106874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-16559841897035216842010-01-24T18:35:28.344-05:002010-01-24T18:35:28.344-05:00The real answer to these critiques is going to com...The real answer to these critiques is going to come when Asia is completing large reactors for less than $1B. Which will proabably be the case within 15 years.SteveK9noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-24410761896478515132010-01-23T13:02:31.172-05:002010-01-23T13:02:31.172-05:00I'd be skeptical about the costs of coal and n...I'd be skeptical about the costs of coal and natural gas with CCS. No one has ever built a commercial CCS coal or gas plant. CCS is dependent on geology. CCS cannot be easily retrofitted to plants. And you can build a coal plant or gas plant without CCS and it will be cheaper. For every coal plant built, its proponents will argue for not building it with CCS, because it is just "one plant" added to thousands of coal plants in the world and so will be a rounding error in reducing GHG. Coal proponents will win a large proportion of those fights.<br /><br />Banking on Carbon Capture and Storage as a crucial part of carbon reductions is like playing Russian roulette with an unknown number of bullets in the chamber. It should only be a backup or side plan: the main plan should be electricity without GHG in the first plan.crfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10726414637021391906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-31189394329089688982010-01-23T00:46:49.970-05:002010-01-23T00:46:49.970-05:00The two best carbon neutral power plants on the ch...The two best carbon neutral power plants on the chart, nuclear and biomass, could actually be complimentary systems if some of the nuclear capacity is used to manufacture hydrogen. <br /><br />The oxygen produced from electrolytic hydrogen production could be used to significantly increase the electrical efficiency and reduce the capital cost of the biomass power plant while the CO2 from the biomass power plant could be synthesized with the hydrogen to produce carbon neutral: gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, methanol,methane, and dimethyl ether.Marcel F. Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16245086958213100840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-90991383083433641552010-01-22T17:46:50.304-05:002010-01-22T17:46:50.304-05:00There you go again David, relying on fact-based nu...There you go again David, relying on fact-based numbers. Home run!Gwyneth Cravenshttp://cravenspowertosavetheworld.comnoreply@blogger.com