"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
The now-permanently closed San Onofre nuclear power plant in southern California had been offline since Jan. 2013. New power sources, including renewable energy, have come online. The power is there, even if the bulk of it is from natural gas.…
Pandora’s Promise, opening soon, documents five major environmentalists who changed their views and now are pro-nuclear. The gap between the amount of power produced fossil fuels vs. renewables is so huge it simply can’t be closed. Thus Stewart Brand and…
California pretends to be a crunchy granola wonderland of renewable energy. The reality is the vast bulk of its power comes from natural gas and imported coal and hydro power, with electricity shortages almost certainly coming soon. Idled nuclear plants and…
The Southern California Edison’s San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has been completely down for months and electricity prices are rising in the area because of this. While the problem here is a temporarily closed site, it highlights the problems of going from…
These nuclear plant outages are generally due to equipment problems. As aging plants are taken offline or closed, where will the replacement power come from? ? New coal or nuclear plants face huge regulatory hurdles as well as almost certain…