This is what you get along with nuclear power?

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/3/7/16145/25403#35

Blame the victim

"Every victim must get stoned" (paraphrasing bobby zimmerman)

Today, potential nuclear disaster victims have the options of living and working in secure, positive-pressure, HEPA-filtered, atmosphere-controlled buildings; and of placing themselves on radioprotective neutriceutical regimens. The more-widespread adoption of these precautionary measures become, the more nuclear would-be "disasters" will simply be non-events.

So any disaster is the fault of those who live near a plant?  They can live and work in labratory grade hepa filtered environs?  Who will pay to convert homes to this level of contamination security?

Nuclear government/industry has not even provided the minimum  safety precautions, iodine pills and radiation suits for emergency personnel, firefighters, emergency medical teams, and hospitals.  Thete are not even any evacuation plans!

Renewable energy installations will not force people living nearby to cower inside in hepa filtered skinner boxes like lab rats.

Keep talking buddy!!  Great job fighting against nuclear power!!

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/2/25/65336/7434#128

So Mass Audobon denies that they will get a contract worth millions?

Is there any proof that they will get a contract?  Other than the assumption based upon the Altamont project?  If funding for a monitering project went to individual scientists rather than Mass Audobon, would that cure any conflict of interest?

If not, how could monitering ever be acomplished without a conflict?  

With modern GPS navigation and radar, why would Cape Wind be a navigational hazard?

Anyway, I remain in favor of moving wind power offshore out of sight and mind of NIMBYs and adding wave power to the floating platforms.  planting them in the sea floor is just not a great idea.  And as we have seen, it has delayed this project for a decade already.

We don't have time to litigate each offshore wind project for decades.  The longer this environmental infighting continues the stronger the forces of the evil lord cheney of halliburton become.

They are assembling bribed legislators and officials  to stop all offshore wind/wave power.

http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2007/03/the_need_for_bo.html#comment-62901932

Large trucks can be converted to plugin serial hybrid too. Railroad locomotives and mining equipment are serial hybrids already. They have diesel generators driving electric motors without transmissions.

For long haul trucks add induction pickups and charging lanes, that way an hour or so driving in the charge lane can recharge the batteries. Also fuel cell/turbines instead of diesel generators, 3 times more efficient.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/3/10/122749/093#7

A transition to full EV is needed.  Plugin serial hybrids are the perfect transition.

Present battery technology and lack of mass production make quick enough charging problematic and pure EVs very expensive.  

But a 25 mile range battery pack is under 2 thousand bucks, and it will charge from a regular home electric system in a few hours.  The lead acid foam battery might drop the price to 500 bucks soon!

Very efficient, light weight generators are already available at low mass production prices.  And electric drivetrains replace inefficient transmissions, the battery, generator, motor combination does the job of a transmission with 25 miles of pure eV performance that will drop average gasoline consumption by 90%.

It's time to stop quibbling and back this technology with bloggerel and eventually capital.  If we can get the mass delusional media  to notice this technology, it may just get going.  GM is paying it lipservice by touting the Volt.

That's a good start, the salesmen in the boardroom have evidently listened to some engineers.  Communication, it's a good thing.

But where are Toyota and Honda?  If they want to keep gaining market share they will need their own plugin serial hybrids.

And mass conversion of used cars will be needed also.