Comments on: Energy Northwest’s Sid Morrison Calls for Nuclear Power as Part of Total Energy Solution http://us.arevablog.com/2009/07/02/energy-northwest%e2%80%99s-sid-morrison-calls-for-nuclear-power-as-part-of-total-energy-solution/ Next Energy Blog Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:26:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Rod Adams http://us.arevablog.com/2009/07/02/energy-northwest%e2%80%99s-sid-morrison-calls-for-nuclear-power-as-part-of-total-energy-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Rod Adams Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:29:43 +0000 http://us.arevablog.com/?p=730#comment-147 Maybe one day soon we will have politicians - or well informed political staffs - that will take a page out of the surprisingly successful campaign by H. Ross Perot. They could pull out charts showing just how tiny a role traditional renewables play in our current energy supply picture and how rapidly nuclear power grew in the 1970s to supply more energy than all of the generating plants in the US did in 1960. The wind and sun have been around as long as the earth has been around and countless generations of skilled human beings have computed that they are inadequate power supplies for the tasks that we want to complete. Nothing has changed except for the increased technical "optimism" that makes today's engineers reluctant to say that something is impossible. Maybe one day soon we will have politicians – or well informed political staffs – that will take a page out of the surprisingly successful campaign by H. Ross Perot.

They could pull out charts showing just how tiny a role traditional renewables play in our current energy supply picture and how rapidly nuclear power grew in the 1970s to supply more energy than all of the generating plants in the US did in 1960.

The wind and sun have been around as long as the earth has been around and countless generations of skilled human beings have computed that they are inadequate power supplies for the tasks that we want to complete. Nothing has changed except for the increased technical “optimism” that makes today’s engineers reluctant to say that something is impossible.

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