Originally Posted by
SideStickMonkey
Coal is nasty. There's no such thing as clean coal and coal burning plants actually release more radiation into the environment than nuclear plants.
What we need is a rebirth of the nuke sector in this country. It's happening but too slowly. We will always need a constant load into our power infrastructure that only nuclear, nat gas, and coal can do. We just need to pretty much get rid of coal altogether.
Wind has been great and I just read China built a solar farm that's twice as big as Manhattan. It's all doable we just need the will to do it.
Also much easier for them to do since they a) are basically the world's producer of solar cells, and b) can steamroll their way into any project since the government has complete societal control there.