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March 12, 2011
Wake Up Tree Huggers
With Japan's nuclear reactors melting down like snow in the springtime, I wonder if the tree huggers will back away from their push to build nuclear reactors in the U.S. I never understood how quickly they switched from "No Nukes" to "Pro Nukes". Granted, the left views the energy needs of the United States through the lens of "Global Warming". Of course, Global Warming is a fraud and anyone with any sense knows it.
And, compared to windmills and solar panels, I'll give you, nuclear energy is sheer genius. It does, at least, produce electricity. But the problem is that it isn't safe. And there's no long term storage solution for the waste. If you amortize out the cost of storing the waste over the long term (something neither the public sector nor the private sector seem to be too keen on), then nuclear power is the most expensive energy source on earth. And probably the most dangerous as well.
Now, I dunno what the long term effects of having a dozen nuclear power plants melt down in Japan will be, but last time I checked, real estate around Chernobyl wasn't moving too fast.
Posted by Rob Kiser on March 12, 2011 at 9:56 AM
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