Obama's energy proposal: lots of nuclear

The summary in the Huffington Post says almost nothing or specific about wind or solar energy. Why is that?

After all, lived here in Southern California for maybe a year of his life. He must know how much sun we get virtually all year long. I realize that everyone has believed that solar energy is more expensive than oil or coal. But really?

Now that we are seeing the true costs of coal and oil, solar looks cheaper and cheaper to me. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/12/american-power-act-photos_n_573643.html#slide_image

25% renewables by 2025.

We should be all solar all the time here in Southern California.

A little wind mixed in for cold or rainy days and that would be just about all we would need.

The only reason that big corporations want nuclear energy is that with nuclear they have a product to sell.

Big corporations want the tax flow from our energy dollars. They want to keep us needy and addicted just like drug dealers.

That is why we have not made the progress we should have on solar and wind energy.

Nuclear energy is just as risky even more so than oil.

Say no to nuclear energy.

he was told by senior management that the new byron il plant was going to be the last big plant they would build. they knew the future costs would be greater than the return. byron was built in the mid 70`s and cost 5 billion. they told him they wanted smaller units spread across the state but they knew it was politically impossible.

byron il plant was started in the mid 70`s and finished around 1980. the cost of the plant was around 5 billion. the projected cost of a similar plant is around 20 billion plus taxpayer funded insurance costs. at this time there is one company in the world that can forge a containment vessel large enough for large plants and that plant has at least a two year backlog. westinghouse was the last company in the usa that builds plants and they were sold to toshiba of japan.we do not have the capacity to make the guts of the plant. we would have order our stuff from overseas suppliers

if one was started today obama would be out of office by the time it was completed.