Comments on: Grappling with the Potency http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/grappling-with-the-potency/ FOP: where the human and geologic converge. Tue, 14 May 2013 00:35:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: FOP http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/grappling-with-the-potency/#comment-890 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:26:24 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=2784#comment-890 NYTimes 6.18.12: Japan Poised to Become Second-Biggest Market for Solar Power
Incentives set to begin July 1 are expected to drive the nation past Italy, which holds the No. 2 spot worldwide. http://nyti.ms/M3tZB5

]]> By: smudge http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/grappling-with-the-potency/#comment-888 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:20:48 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=2784#comment-888 Thanks for your comment. We’ve been intrigued by how the rhetoric in support of nuclear power has changed over the decades. Starting as justifying it in the name of “atoms for peace” and harnessing nuclear power for “the good of mankind,” to justifying it in the name of economics (“electricity generated by nuclear plants will be so inexpensive, it will be nearly free”), to now justifying it in the name how it will save us from climate change (however, it will take decades to build new nuclear reactors to replace fossil fuel plants, and climate change is well underway–it seems we could just as well use these decades to develop wind/solar and other alternatives). We understand that some 30% of all electricity used in the United States is wasted by consumers. We also understand that across the U.S., about 20-30% of our electricity comes from nuclear power. It seems that if we were to stop wasting 30% of all electricity the comes into our homes and factories, we could turn off all nuclear plants and hardly sense the difference.

It seems that this moment is an opportunity for people to make choices about where their energy comes from, how much they want to use, and the materials involved. 7.5 million people in Japan have signed a petition indicating they are willing to engage with this issue and begin to consciously work through the complex problems of energy that, for the moment, have no simple answers.

]]> By: D. Trent http://fopnews.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/grappling-with-the-potency/#comment-887 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:38:31 +0000 http://fopnews.wordpress.com/?p=2784#comment-887 So where is Japan now getting its electricity? Old, out of date coal-fired power plants. Which is worse? I don’t have the answer.

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