Saturday, September 01, 2007

Your Personal Nuclear Power Plant

Who's behing the big-bio-fuels push??

I'm talking about ethanol from corn, palm oil, and biodiesel. These technologies are a diversion from the simple truth--the internal combustion engine needs to be phased out.

There's an ecological and economic cost to these technologies, but that's another blog entry.

Just think about this for a second: The vast majority of drivers have less than a 40 mile commute to and from work. A fully charged battery on a plug-in hybrid can take a driver as far as 100 miles, thus, in theory, if the driver was dutiful and plugged their hybrid in every night, the internal combustion engine in a plug-in hybrid would never need to kick in. Therefore, most people can get to and from work without emitting anymore CO2 than they are exhaling.

If everyone converted to battery power, what would happen to all the oil companies??

Without getting into a multitude of conspiracy theories, the U.S. could have as many as 500 nuclear power plants right now, today. Instead of putting a trillion dollars of debt down to fight a hopeless war in an oil rich nation, money could be spent to build 500 nuclear power plants. These power plants could be built with enough redundancies to make them completely Fail Safe like the 90 or so power plants currently supplying France with 40% of France's electric power. These nuclear power plants could be supplying about 70% of the United State's electricity cheaply, without damaging our atmosphere, and without cutting down our Rain forests. The waste of these power plants could be stored in Yucca Mountain where they've already spent billions building a safe storage facility.

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