{"id":5949,"date":"2013-10-09T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=5949"},"modified":"2013-10-08T12:07:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T16:07:42","slug":"nuclear-power-like-burning-20-bills-to-generate-electricity-bill-mckibben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/nuclear-power-like-burning-20-bills-to-generate-electricity-bill-mckibben.html","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear power like burning $20 bills to generate electricity –Bill McKibben"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nNukes cost too much and are too centralized;\r\nsun and wind are the power we need and can afford.\r\n

\r\nAndrew Sullivan on the Dish 8 December 2012,\r\n\r\nAsk McKibben Anything: What About Nuclear Energy?<\/a>\r\n

\r\nIn October, Bill spoke to Marlene Spoerri of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs about his views on nuclear power:\r\n
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\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nI don’t foresee, especially post-Fukushima, a kind of political\r\nsystem in most of the world that would let it happen. Even before\r\nFukushima, it wasn’t happening. The reason basically had to do with\r\ncost. Environmentalists helped shut down nuclear power, but really\r\nit was Wall Street that pulled the plug on it. It’s too expensive.\r\nIt’s like burning $20 bills to generate electricity. It requires, if\r\nyou’re going to do it, massive government subsidy. If you’re going\r\nto apply that subsidy, you’re better off doing it with other things\r\nthat will generate more kilowatt hours per buck.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nNow, that said, we should keep trying to figure out if there are\r\nsome ways to do it that are more acceptable than the ones we’ve got\r\nnow. You read about developments on the fringes, Thorium reactors\r\nand so on and so forth. But my guess is that in the timeframe we’ve\r\ngot this is not going to be the place we go.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nKevin J. Kelley wrote for Seven Days 10 August 2011,\r\n\r\nAuthor-Activist Bill McKibben Gets “Disobedient” About Climate Change<\/a>,\r\n

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\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nShutting down Vermont Yankee, according to McKibben, was “the\r\neasiest case there ever was to make.” Noting it took a\r\n“30-foot wall of water” to damage the Fukushima nuclear\r\nplant in Japan, McKibben recalls that the side of a cooling tower at\r\nYankee “just fell off” a few years ago. Entergy, the\r\nowner of the Vernon plant, “shouldn’t be allowed to run even a\r\nchain of convenience stores,” McKibben charges.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nThe trend in energy generation, he observes, is “away from few\r\nand big and toward many and small.” He’s all for wind power,\r\nfor example, despite the opposition of some Vermont greens to\r\nridgeline installations. “Every kind of energy has\r\ndrawbacks,” McKibben acknowledges. “In general, the\r\nbenefit of the doubt belongs to renewable energy.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

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