"Some folks want wind and solar. Others want nuclear, clean coal, and natural gas. To meet this goal, we will need them all -" and I urge Democrats and Republicans to work together to make it happen," [1] the President said. Like on -" health care, for example.
To "win the future" with his "clean energy sources," the President would "give utilities the flexibility to generate clean energy wherever makes the most sense, all clean sources -" including renewables, nuclear power, efficient natural gas, and coal with carbon capture and sequestration -" would count toward the goal" [2] of 80% "clean" sources by 2035.
While the tradition among the "small people" to wish upon a star, hope for a pony for Christmas, or blow out candles in anticipation of getting something neat is indulged in youth, the expectation is that, eventually, the real world will impose its unyielding conditions on us, and we will mature, grow up.
But, to maintain this same tradition in the guise of a national energy policy is simply -" catastrophic.
While there are many flaws in the President's expectation and selection of business-as-usual energy somehow delivering the goods, several stand out head and shoulders above the rest:
1.) Nuclear power, natural gas, and even coal with carbon capture and sequestration are NOT "clean".
The President's SoU did not explain how the $1 billion-plus clean up of the leaking West Valley, NY, radioactive waste dump is "clean." Nor the plans to mine uranium in the Grand Canyon area. Nor the continued leaks of tritium at numerous US nuclear reactors. Nor the 60,000 metric tons -" and growing -" pile of high-level radioactive wastes the nation's reactors have already produced, with more on the way and no place to dispose of it, if the President gets his way.
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