Theodore's World

I have always been a proponent of nuclear power. While the rest of the world passes us by our people have cow tailed to the likes of Al Gore and are against anything that may help. Our government and regulators are out of control.

If the democrats were serious about the United States being energy independant they would consider all options. Solar, Wind, Geothermal and Nuclear. But by considering Nuclear this would mean a solution to the problem(that is assuming there is a climate problem) but solutions are not what the democrats are about. They are about control not of energy but of our lives and regulating and taxing us to death. Their POWER.

Nuclear Power is the future, Solar, Wind and all these cockamayme alternatives are pie in the sky solutions, that will never happen, they are folly and a waste of taxpayer money.

During the campaign McCain was into this too, his idea of a 'Super battery', the Magic Battery that goes on forever. It doesn't exist, won't exist because it defies the basic law of Conservation of Energy i.e., Power in equals Power out + Losses, Power in = Power out there are no freebies there. Once used it has to be resupplied, recharged and in the case of a battery you will get a little less output than the first time and so on until the battery is useless.

There is no need for this kind of alternative energy, we already have the technology for Nuke Plants to supply all the power and energy we need.

All matter can be converted into energy. A 1kg of mass can be converted into 9 x 10^16 Joules of energy. This is enough energy to power a 100 watt bulb for 28,519,279 years. That is more than 2.8 times the energy produced by the Sun in a year. This is the solution.

The democrats on the other hand will not go for this. The Summary of the Republican proposal is sound, valid and makes sense and the technology is readily available. All we need is a congress that has a spine to use it and to think about the country first for a change instead of their own power.

Amen Mark, it couldn't be stated any clearer. The bottom line is that the Democrats are all about totalitarian control, screw the energy crisis, screw the economic downturn, screw the dependence on energy sources dominated by Islamo-fascist regimes, it's all about total control and doling out everything to those who support and cherish Socialist Fascism. Pence is one of the rare birds in the RINO party that doesn't support in lockstep what the "Democrats" want.
Like you said the Conservation of Energy Law prevails, even Einstein recognized it.

The French have the most Nuclear power around, of all of Europe they are the most energy independent. Westinghouse, one of my former employers, nearly went under due to nuclear fuel commitments behind the Iron Curtain during the '70's energy crisis as a result Westinghouse divested it's appliance division, sold it to White, so it could fund those binding contracts until their contract renewals. We have a naval fleet that's nuclear powered with very few mishaps, proof of nuclear safety, I worked in the nuclear industry before going into the oil side of energy, It was safe as long as I trusted the instruments and paid strict attention at all times, one fatality in 5 years, a contractor fell to his death while crossing a well marked safety barrier.

You said it Mark. The Dems are into power and control. They want to tax and regulate everything and everyone.

This House Republican Bill seems very realistic awould be a real boost to our economy. It also ignores that cap and trade bullshit. My guess is that this bill is Dead on Arrival.

Bob A, sorry, but the term is Kowtow not cow tailed. To Kowtow was a Chinese maneuver that required approaching the ruler of China in a full down belly crawl generally licking the floor.

As I have said before the known nuclear reserves are 3800 years worth and if we begin doing coal to liquid conversion at $50 peer barrel US would not have to import a drop of oil for three centuries based on known reserves but businessmen did most of the exploration their and they stop looking after finding forty years supply.

Bob A., I agree, I remember even as a
kid my Dad talking about how nuclear power
was going to be very important to our
country one day.

Mark, that was excellent thank you so much.

Jack, I wish our country would lead on
this. We have let the enviros run
things for way too long. They want us
back in the caves and jungles.

Tom, yes they will shoot it down. I hope
they get it in the records that it
exists as a way to solve this at least.

Avitar, I have used that expression too and
actually never knew where it came from.Thank
you for telling about it.