There Should Be No Subsidies for Any Power Generation Technology to Include Coal

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Renewable vs. Practical Electricity Obama Finally Embraces Nuclear?

Dear John McCormick,

Well keep filling your cisterns.

1. Nuclear plants use billions of gallons of water each Year for cooling. HMMM we have plenty of water correct. Wrong, second biggest problem in USA.

2. Cost. 7 years to build and using foreign workers since we effectively have no nuclear industry in old USA. We need to create jobs in USA, the cost for each plant and the time required for permitting, 7 billion dollars and 7 years per plant. Cost per kilowatt at the end of the day more than Wind.

3. Nuclear plants are terrorist targets. Yes they have not been hit yet but.

This is the short list. This move is nothing but paying off large corporate donators to the Obama administration i.e. GE.

By the way the subsidies required from the government to do this far exceed the subsidies for wind. There should be no subsidies for any power generation technology to include coal. Provide low cost loans on an even footing and let the best, lowest cost producers survive. By the way I am a wind guy who designs the next generation wind turbines that have energy storage built in. What we need and there are many working on it is large storage technologies. We currently throw up to 40% of the power produced in the U.S. in the ground daily. The simple reason why is that the coal, gas, nuclear plants are not throttle able, meaning they have to be turned on and produce the same amount of electric day and night.

Frank J. McClintic