User profile: Rmoen

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I think you've got it right. But a nuclear plant at Lake Tahoe will never fly. Perhaps the Paiutes would be forward thinking enough to put it on Pyramid Lake, possibly Stampede Reservoir near Reno or the Humbolt River.

-- Robert Moen, www.energyplanUSA

Oops, I dropped a zero in the above post. It should read, "A single nuclear power plant equates to about 1000-2000 large wind turbines, if we assume the wind blows 24-hours a day. ...but of course it doesn't."

-- Robert Moen, www.energyplanUSA.com

A single nuclear power plant equates to about 20-40 Nevada Solar Ones (near Boulder City), if we assume the sun shines 24-hours a day. ...but of course it doesn't.

A single nuclear power plant equates to about 100-200 large wind turbines, if we assume the wind blows 24-hours a day. ...but of course it doesn't.

While water is a barrier to nuclear reactors, it is instructive to note that the Palo Verde Power Plant near Phoenix, currently the largest in the United States, is not located adjacent to a large body of water. Instead, it evaporates water from the treated sewage of several nearby municipalities to meet its cooling needs.

As a Nevada resident I do not want to see hundreds of wind mills, dozens of solar facilities and hundreds of miles of transmission lines mucking-up our state. We in Nevada would be crazy short-sighted to turn our backs on the possibility of powering the state with nuclear power.

-- Robert Moen, www.energyplanUSA.com

Yucca Mountain was a political solution to a scientific problem. It does not make sense to ship nuclear waste to Nevada when 96 of the 104 reactors are east of the Rockies. Nor does it make sense to store nuclear waste above the surrounding water table in the most recently formed and changing crust on earth. We should consider expanding the existing WIPP disposal site in New Mexico. It is several thousand feet under the earth in a salt deposit that's had no geological activity for a zillion years (or there abouts).

-- Robert Moen, www.energyplanUSA.com

Carbon-free nuclear power is the ONLY way the world can retire emission-belching coal generating plants and possibly check global warming. If we have scientists address the nuclear waste problem, not politicians, nuclear waste can actually become a resource.

Yucca Mountain was a political solution to a scientific problem. It does not make sense to ship nuclear waste to Nevada when 96 of the 104 reactors are east of the Rockies. Nor does it make sense to store nuclear waste above the surrounding water table in the most recently formed and changing crust on earth. We should consider expanding the existing WIPP disposal site in New Mexico. It is several thousand feet under the earth in a salt deposit that's had no geological activity for a zillion years (or there abouts).

-- Robert Moen, www.energyplanUSA.com