Libya is better off without nuclear generation

[Kolesar]

Poll question: Libya is better off without nuclear generation

edit:too wordy

[yurbud]

1. no country needs it for electricity, but that doesn't mean we have to bomb them back to the stone

age and/or invade and occupy them.

[GliderGuider]

2. Libya yesterday, Libya today or Libya tomorrow? n/t

[damntexdem]

3. Everyone is better off without nukes.

Global warming is one thing -- global radioactivity in another league.

[TheWraith]

5. Except coal plants release more poison in a day than nuclear plants ever have.

Is poisoning the air and water somehow better and more morally acceptable if we do it with coal plants, which kill probably around 40,000 people a year just in the US? Compared to civilian nuclear power never having killed anyone here?

[kristopher]

6. It's a good thing we have renewables so that we need neither nuclear NOR coal.

[XemaSab]

7. You're right, we don't need either

We could just pull all our coal and nuclear facilities offline today, if we so chose.

[bananas]

12. Bazinga!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x244743

[kristopher]

13. Bazinga?

Thanks for the link.

[TheWraith]

8. Solar and wind together are much less than one percent of our power generation.

Hydro is significantly more, but we can't scale it up. So please tell me how many wind turbines we need to place in order to generate enough energy to replace ALL coal, and ALL nuclear, and how much money that will cost.

Show your work.

[XemaSab]

9. Here's energy generated in California, which is 2/3 of consumed energy in the state

Coal isn't such a big percent of energy generated IN STATE, but natural gas is nearly 60% of our energy.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x275734

And California is supposed to be the leader of the renewables movement.

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[XemaSab]

11. Hey, 0.4% of the power generated in the state of California isn't nothing

:P

[kristopher]

4. What could possibly be the problem with encouraging the spread ...

... of dual use nuclear technologies in a world as unstable as we now have?

[Kolesar]

14. kick