Bronco Lane,

You are a MASTER of sarcasm. It's unfortunate that you're so wrong about nuclear power. Check out France on my website. They've built most of their 80+ nuclear power plants near parks where children play and near office buildings...not to mention their plants near open water where skiers, sailors, wind-surfers and swimmers enjoy their sports in total safety....unless they can't swim. Probably the safest place on earth to build your home would be right next to a nuclear power plant. I've visited many of them, and I still don't "glow in the dark."

Your sarcasm is both ridiculous and wasted. It's obvious that you're a reasonably intelligent person. Please use that intelligence in a positive manner. Negativity never accomplishes anything.

With respect to the "Greenies" as you call them. I am a member of both GreenPeace and The Sierra Club. But like Patrick Moore, the co-founder of GreenPeace, I believe that their good deeds, and there's a lot of them, are COMPLETELY outweighed by their dangerous opposition to nuclear power. They are a threat to my children (8) my grandchildren (16) and to my great-grandchildren (2) and that means that they are a threat to ALL children and all future generations.

Trouble, are you saying this is all lies? Any proof?

>http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/nukes/chernob/rep02.html

achenne1 (a new name)

Of course I have proof. Most of it you'll find on my website: www.nucleargreen.org. Anything that's not specifically covered, let me know and I'll respond.

Ralph Andrews

Actually, Ralph hardly any of it is covered on your website. It's an ad for your book, as I suspect this thread may be also.

The way I see it is that most of your posts seem long on rhetoric, short on details and answers.....BUY THE BOOK! LOL

Thanks for the offer of getting a copy Ralph, but I'll wait until its in a library close by.

There's more to nuclear power than reactors and there are real concerns about waste management, mining and refining.

And as for Sylvia, I never mentioned any specific technology for power storage. I have no idea why you then went off on a tangent about Vanadium. I guess that's what happens when you "assume"

Bugsy,

As usual your assumption is wrong. I'm not trying to sell my book. It's taking care of itself, and doesn't need my help. You obviously did not search through my entire website. It's really quite accurate depending almost entirely on logic and common sense and not on scientific "mumbo jumbo." 441 nuclear power plants without a single accident or fatality speaks volumes to the safety of nuclear power....especially when you compare that record to the more than 6,000 deaths related to coal and natural gas power during the last decade alone.

Sorry we can't meet face to face. I would be interesting.

Good luck,

Ralph

Bugsy,

Well if you weren't referring to VRBs when you talked about the storage technology that we already have on a small scale, then what were you talking about? Perhaps I was crediting you with more knowledge than is yours.

Technology that we have on a small scale is of no interest in the discussion about large scale use of intermittent power unless that technology is capable of being scaled. So which technologies do you have in mind?

Sylvia.