Reply #9: Let's be clear that JPak said the nuclear industry would go away. [View All]

I'm really not interested in soothsaying.

You started out here saying that nuclear energy is doomed, and now you're reduced to saying it won't grow fast.

I am interested in getting as many nuclear plants built as is possible. In order to do this, to give us our best shot, I will be compelled to fight those who work through distortion and misrepresentation. I fully recognize that the problem of climate change is enormous, which is why I do not advise toys as a means of approaching it.

Note that I could call myself "Princeton Energy Consultants" and this would have no bearing on the truth or falsity of what I say. It would be however something of a misrepresentation of my affiliation and maybe an effort to deceive.

Once again, not that you have any capability with comparing real numbers, here are the production figures for the three largest producers of greenhouse free energy for the last decade and a half:

Nuclear:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/table27.xls

Hydroelectric:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/table15.xls

All of the non-hydrorenewables combined:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/table17.xls

The numbers speak for themselves, both in terms of growth and in terms of absolute magnitude. I have long understood that you can't interpret numbers, but all the "reports" in the world from all of the various circle jerk of anti-nuclear websites in the world does not change the data.

There are no other options except coal apologetics like that is now being offered in Germany.