re: #86 Walter L. Newton

You can make all the deals you want, but if you don’t find a place to put those nuclear power plants, it doesn’t amount to much. Resistance to siting new nuclear plants in the US is limiting new development here. Environmentalists complain that the nuclear power plants affect water quality (nuclear power plants need prodigious amounts of water to cool the turbines and that affects both water temps and kills fish. It’s a tactic that environmentalists are trying to use to shut down the Indian Pt. nuclear plant in Buchanan NY, and prevent construction of a new reactor in NJ at Oyster Creek (where several other plants are currently operating).

We’d just have to ignore that burning coal actually releases mercury, heavy metals, radioactive elements, etc.

Conservation alone will not meet power demands, and improving air quality will take more than just wind or solar power (which are increasingly likely to be built in Chinese factories because of lower costs using less than stellar environmental controls contributing further to the degredation of the environment there).