Gone Fission.
One of my favorite things about doing the bills is getting the ComEd environmental impact statements. I am a firm believer in nuclear power, and Illinois is one of the most nuclear states in the union thanks to ComEd. This week we have hit a new high, 82% of our power is coming from nuclear. Oh yeah baby. And if you wonder at my happiness, well, the remainder is almost always made up for by coal. No matter ho much it is, it is coal. It may be a poor tradeoff, but radioactive waste seems easier to deal with than polluted air.
Now if we could only get around to sticking more effort into modern nuclear fission plants (there are much safer designs around now which could replace more risky older designs we currently use) and ITER, we might actually be able to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels to some degree.
Insert long political rant here that I just really don’t have the energy for right now.
*sigh* what’s the point of a blog, if you don’t stick the long political rants in?
October 30th, 2005 at 23:16
Here’s an interesting little factoid. ComEd’s coal plants generate more nuclear waste than their nuclear plants….
October 30th, 2005 at 23:17
Rather radioactive waste….
October 31st, 2005 at 09:40
nukular
November 2nd, 2005 at 19:03
Yeah, hearing about that was one of the first reasons that I got all excited about how much nuclear power ComEd uses.