Comments on: Obama’s Nuclear Plant Pre-Bailout: His Dumbest Move Yet? http://principledprofit.com/good-business-blog/obamas-nuclear-plant-pre-bailout-his-dumbest-move-yet/2010/02/17/ The Good Business Blog Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:01:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Shel Horowitz, Ethical Marketing Expert http://principledprofit.com/good-business-blog/obamas-nuclear-plant-pre-bailout-his-dumbest-move-yet/2010/02/17/comment-page-1/#comment-9637 Shel Horowitz, Ethical Marketing Expert Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:26:29 +0000 http://principledprofit.com/good-business-blog/?p=1095#comment-9637 Well, I must say this article makes it sound like a very promising alternative. Certainly it looks significantly superior to the uranium reactors of the past. I would still have a lot of questions and would want people who know more than me to take a very close and careful look, but clearly it needs that close look. I'm not seeing any obvious red flags, other than the terrorism issue. Still, before jumping to this unproven technology, I'd hope we as a society would look at this kind of creative alternative, based in vastly increasing energy efficiency: <a href="http://www.frugalmarketing.com/dtb/amorylovins.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.frugalmarketing.com/dtb/amorylovins.shtml</a> Well, I must say this article makes it sound like a very promising alternative. Certainly it looks significantly superior to the uranium reactors of the past. I would still have a lot of questions and would want people who know more than me to take a very close and careful look, but clearly it needs that close look. I’m not seeing any obvious red flags, other than the terrorism issue. Still, before jumping to this unproven technology, I’d hope we as a society would look at this kind of creative alternative, based in vastly increasing energy efficiency: http://www.frugalmarketing.com/dtb/amorylovins.shtml

]]> By: David Ecklein http://principledprofit.com/good-business-blog/obamas-nuclear-plant-pre-bailout-his-dumbest-move-yet/2010/02/17/comment-page-1/#comment-9636 David Ecklein Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:30:36 +0000 http://principledprofit.com/good-business-blog/?p=1095#comment-9636 Shel- You might start with: http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/348/ Shel-

You might start with:

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/348/

]]> By: Shel Horowitz, Ethical Marketing Expert http://principledprofit.com/good-business-blog/obamas-nuclear-plant-pre-bailout-his-dumbest-move-yet/2010/02/17/comment-page-1/#comment-9634 Shel Horowitz, Ethical Marketing Expert Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:30:28 +0000 http://principledprofit.com/good-business-blog/?p=1095#comment-9634 Not familiar with thorium technology. David, can you say more? Not familiar with thorium technology. David, can you say more?

]]> By: David Ecklein http://principledprofit.com/good-business-blog/obamas-nuclear-plant-pre-bailout-his-dumbest-move-yet/2010/02/17/comment-page-1/#comment-9633 David Ecklein Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:38:30 +0000 http://principledprofit.com/good-business-blog/?p=1095#comment-9633 Shel- This is substantially a portion of an email response to you earlier: Assuming for the moment that there are solutions, I am not convinced that solar, wind, and geothermal will overcome the economic (and other) problems in time to stop the stupid Obama initiative to green-light nuclear power plant construction, which will be using the uranium-based reactor designs that have the big money invested up front. The head turkey seems to follow the path of least resistance, the path to the November chopping block strewn with the most corn. We are likely to be stuck with a monumental obsolescence that our grandchildren will be paying for, if it doesn't harm us in other ways. Thorium-based reactors are already operating in India and China, are far safer and pose a small fraction of the problematical waste issues associated with uranium based designs. Yet no US politician and few public figures talk about this promising option. Why not? Shel-

This is substantially a portion of an email response to you earlier:

Assuming for the moment that there are solutions, I am not convinced that solar, wind, and geothermal will overcome the economic (and other) problems in time to stop the stupid Obama initiative to green-light nuclear power plant construction, which will be using the uranium-based reactor designs that have the big money invested up front. The head turkey seems to follow the path of least resistance, the path to the November chopping block strewn with the most corn. We are likely to be stuck with a monumental obsolescence that our grandchildren will be paying for, if it doesn’t harm us in other ways. Thorium-based reactors are already operating in India and China, are far safer and pose a small fraction of the problematical waste issues associated with uranium based designs. Yet no US politician and few public figures talk about this promising option. Why not?

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