DAIMLER getting out of engine business...sort of

[dtcerrato]

There is a moratorium on coastal power plants due to the Fukashima catastrophy. San Onofre is permanently closed and had one of the worst safety records on the books. Bechtel installed one of the nuclear reactors backwards - scary huh? Oh it's just Los Angeles... Geeze. Crystal River 75mi west of us has been decommissioned but two coal fired plants are still active there. France leads the world in nuclear reactors.

[chessie4905]

Good luck with nuclear getting traction anymore. 3 mile island, Chernoble, Fukashima,etc plus the issue of dealing with spent fuel rods. very few are willing to burying them for years. Hard enough to find places to take our trash. Not going anywhere anymore in this country.

[luvrbus]

There is a moratorium on coastal power plants due to the Fukashima catastrophy. San Onofre is permanently closed and had one of the worst safety records on the books. Bechtel installed one of the nuclear reactors backwards - scary huh? Oh it's just Los Angeles... Geeze. Crystal River 75mi west of us has been decommissioned but two coal fired plants are still active there. France leads the world in nuclear reactors.

I believe we have more nuclear power plants than France not real sure though since I don't do google 

[dtcerrato]

USA has almost twice as many nuclear power plants than France but France leads the world in it's electric grid being powered in 2019 at over 70% by nuclear energy. In our construction years we put many a cooling towers in nuclear power plants. Sort of like the radiator in our buses...

[lostagain]

France has had nuclear power plants since the 1960s, without any problems. It is the cleanest form of energy: zero emissions. There are improving ways to bury the waste, such as deep in the Canadian shield granite bed rock. If a container broke, it would take thousands of years to percolate back to the surface. The  biggest obstacle is the public perception and fear of nuclear.

[Dave5Cs]

This is why Dan glows green!

The one in Elk Grove California was shut down years ago because of all the problems. It only ran at 30% most of the time. We all called it Rancho MistakO...instead of Rancho Seco....

[usbusin]

Yep, and they are shutting down a perfectly good one at Diablo Canyon near San Luis Obispo, California in 2025.  Supplies 10% of California's energy.

They have proposed a 400 square mile 3 gigabyte wind farm 17 to 40 miles off the coast of Morro Bay, CA.  The largest in the USA.  Supposedly have received the approval of all agencies involved, which is a miracle. I'm sure there will be appeals by someone/organization.

[luvrbus]

Yep, and they are shutting down a perfectly good one at Diablo Canyon near San Luis Obispo, California in 2025.  Supplies 10% of California's energy.

They have proposed a 400 square mile 3 gigabyte wind farm 17 to 40 miles off the coast of Morro Bay, CA.  The largest in the USA.  Supposedly have received the approval of all agencies involved, which is a miracle. I'm sure there will be appeals by someone/organization.

60 % of the power generated here in AZ goes to CA ,if they shut down Hoover and other power supply from other states CA would be in deep trouble,CA does some dumb things like giving the Indians the water rights to the Colorado River and now paying for the water   

[dtcerrato]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/03/bill-gates-warren-buffett-new-nuclear-reactor-wyoming-natrium

[Dave5Cs]

Clifford California actually doesn't need any power with alll the solar they have. Yes they buy 55.9% from Az but they also pay Az to take our surplus solar or it would overload their grid and cause blackouts. They are always shutting down some of the solar plants to try and figure out just how much they don't need and the feds will only allow them to use so much renewable power. they need to figure out when to shut down each unit to compensate for the overall electric usage like in Summer with the use of AC's as opposed to winter and not the call for the power that was needed. And as far as up North they have plenty of water even in a drought year it is from Fresno south that uses so much and has tried to get the rights to the northern water for years.

[dtcerrato]

Back in the 80's wifey & I are backpacking back country in Washington state. Two days in we come up to a reservoir with a razor wired top chain link fence around it. We were moving in closer to read signage on the fence. It said - "No trespassing property of Los Angeles CA water management". Well okay we looked at each other and said WTF!? 

[freds]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/03/bill-gates-warren-buffett-new-nuclear-reactor-wyoming-natrium

The problem with nuclear which is left over from the cold war is that a typical plant only burns a few percent of the available fuel and then they store all of it away as waste.

The reactor they are advocating uses that waste (which we have mega boat load worth's) as the primary fuel source converting it into something that can't be used for weapons. It is also a walk away and ignore design.

Definitely something we should do ASAP!!!!

[windtrader]

Nuclear is dead in CA. The direction is solar and all new homes built in CA must have solar panels installed, various sized systems are options. Just this past month, CA took an ax to natural gas. All new homes starting in 2023 will not have natural gas, only electricity.


Between the solar panel and all electric homes starting 2023, the die is cast for the rest of the century.

[richard5933]

...Between the solar panel and all electric homes starting 2023, the die is cast for the rest of the century.

The die is never fully cast.

My parents moved us to Dallas in the 70s. All the new homes there were being built electric only. That didn't last long, and natural gas returned to the scene.

California might be the outlier, but that will depend on a reliable source of electricity.

[luvrbus]

Nuclear is dead in CA. The direction is solar and all new homes built in CA must have solar panels installed, various sized systems are options. Just this past month, CA took an ax to natural gas. All new homes starting in 2023 will not have natural gas, only electricity.


Between the solar panel and all electric homes starting 2023, the die is cast for the rest of the century.

LOL I bet that pissed off the HOA's in CA,they need water more than electric generated by solar they have another drought now and will expect someone to bail the state out again.hay haulers here are running 24 hours a day to CA dairy products prices there are going to rise paying $300.00 a ton for hay,beef must already be exspensive in CA,they buy it by the pickup load here and take it back to CA