re: #24 LudwigVanQuixote

From whom? I think that most scientific people realize that if you really want a lot of energy that can power a major city, nuclear is the most efficient way we can do it and the one we could deploy the most quickly. Though wind farms could be deployed quickly as well, you run into vast amounts of Nimby. Not that you don’t with nuclear, but you need far fewer sites.

Two words of course come into play: Yucca Mountain. That and the refusal to allow the recycling of nuclear material by the DOE. It’s not really a refusal it’s the law.

There seems to be resistance to solar and wind projects as well. Not to be cynical (which I am naturally) but that adds to the delay of even those projects. Right now the studies for the offshore project in NJ will take 2 years. The American Littoral Society is calling for additional studies however the Sierra Club is supporting it all the way.