{"id":441,"date":"2012-10-05T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T14:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/san-onofre-nuke-might-restart-why-not-solar-and-wind-instead.html"},"modified":"2012-10-05T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T14:36:59","slug":"san-onofre-nuke-might-restart-why-not-solar-and-wind-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/san-onofre-nuke-might-restart-why-not-solar-and-wind-instead.html","title":{"rendered":"San Onofre nuke might restart: why not solar and wind instead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSouthern California Edison bet on big baseload nuclear, and<br \/>\nhas been out two units for eight months and counting.<br \/>\nBig baseload turns quickly from 24\/7 to 0\/7.<br \/>\nTentative plans are forming for a restart, which will take<br \/>\nmany more months, if ever.<br \/>\nWouldn&#8217;t distributed solar and wind be quicker and smarter?<br \/>\nIn Georgia, as well as California?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMichael R. Blood wrote for AP yesterday,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/news\/ci_21696134\/future-damaged-calif-nuke-plant-coming-clearer\"><br \/>\nTroubled Calif. nuke plant aims to restart reactor,<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThe company announced plans to repair and restart one of two damaged<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/news\/ci_21696134\/future-damaged-calif-nuke-plant-coming-clearer\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017d3c85252c970c\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017d3c85252c970c-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a><br \/>\nreactors, Unit 2, at reduced power to hopefully halt vibration that<br \/>\nhas caused excessive wear to scores of tubes that carry radioactive<br \/>\nwater. The outlook for its heavily damaged sister, Unit 3, appears<br \/>\ngrim and no decision on its future is expected until at least next<br \/>\nsummer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission is expected to take months to<br \/>\nreview the plan, and there is no timetable to restart the plant.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThere are a few signs that the eventual outcome is dawning on some utility people.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nPlans are already taking shape that envision lower output from San<br \/>\nOnofre at least into 2013.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Whenever you lose generation, it has implications,&#8221; said San Diego<br \/>\nGas &amp; Electric spokeswoman Jennifer Ramp.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWell, yeah, and losing big blocks of power is one of the implications<br \/>\nof depending on a few big baseload plants in the first place.<br \/>\nDistributed<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/10\/a-billion-people-on-solar-india.html\"><br \/>\nsolar<\/a><br \/>\nand<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/09\/southern-company-lets-do-the-renewable-energy-study-for-georgia.html\"><br \/>\nwind<\/a> wouldn&#8217;t have this problem.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern California Edison bet on big baseload nuclear, and has been out two units for eight months and counting. Big baseload turns quickly from 24\/7 to 0\/7. Tentative plans are forming for a restart, which will take many more months, if ever. Wouldn&#8217;t distributed solar and wind be quicker and smarter? In Georgia, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,104,21,22,23,24,36],"tags":[824,339,1037,8701,8702,12,7,8737,8711,107,8712,8713,8714,335,6,8716],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-georgia","category-nuclear","category-planning","category-politics","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-wind","tag-baseload","tag-california","tag-distributed","tag-georgia","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-nuclear","tag-planning","tag-plant-vogtle","tag-politics","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar","tag-southern-california-edison","tag-valdosta","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}