Perhaps the BEST B1G Forum anywhere, here at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

I stepped out on the deck to do a bit of work on our "garden" and quickly stepped back inside.  Windy and chilly.  I'll wait.

99.9 percent of the people on this earth have never heard of a joule.

Well why should we suffer fools? 

Well why should we suffer fools?

The new USA:


Population 3,650.

he didn't learn much

I had an abbreviated discussion about heat and temperature with my "step son in law" a while back.  It got so garbled I just said "Never mind."

He learned about climate science from Al Gore, I'm serious. 

AL Gore is the reason they put instructions on shampoo,I'm serious

Anyhow 3-4 wks ago temps brushed 60° for a spell, i said we're not done with winter - Home Opener hadn't arrived. Well 45 minutes ago about 3 miles south of the lake it was blustery snow/sleet.as I drove another mile closer to the Lake it stopped. Happens practically every year home opener is Monday the 8th -  with the total solar eclipse coming right thru this area it should be past by 1st Pitch. PLAY BALL!!!

Nuclear energy is surging back in a big way. Case in point: Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s comments last week on plans to restart the Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan. To bolster the effort, she announced a $1.5 billion conditional loan guarantee to cover work required to restart the plant after a two-year shutdown. And this is just the latest example of the nuclear energy industry’s re-emergence as policymakers and energy industry leaders again recognize its value in supplying reliable, scalable carbon-free energy.

Only a few years ago, well-run nuclear plants were shutting down across the U.S. Now, plants like Diablo Canyon in California that were headed toward shutdown have gotten a reprieve, and Palisades has been granted a chance for new life.

Meanwhile, the first new American nuclear plant in decades, Vogtle 3, came online last year, and Vogtle 4 is being finalized to come online this year. Apart from that, a plethora of advanced small reactor designs are in the offing, promising new ways to site plants and provide clean energy to power everything from server farms to steel plants.

Nuclear energy’s comeback is the result of several factors. There is rising demand for reliable clean energy and a desire to move away from fossil fuels. Nuclear energy checks all the boxes—nuclear power plants are carbon-free, they operate 24/7, and they form the backbone of a reliable electricity grid.


https://www.powermag.com/nuclear-energy-seeing-a-resurgence-unlike-any-other/

probably right
because of minds like this................
_______________________________________

An environmental group has sued the U.S. Energy Department over its decision to award over $1 billion to help keep California's last nuclear power plant running beyond a planned closure that was set for 2025. The move opens another battlefront in the fight over the future of Diablo Canyon's twin reactors.

Friends of the Earth, in a complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, argued that the award to plant operator Pacific Gas & Electric last year was based on an outdated, flawed analysis that failed to recognize the risk of earthquakes or other serious events.


"The environmental impacts from extending the lifespan of this aging power plant at this point in time have not been adequately addressed or disclosed to the public," the complaint said.

An email seeking comment was sent to the Energy Department.

Diablo Canyon lies on a bluff overlooking the Pacific midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It began operating in the mid-1980s and supplies up to 9% of the state's electricity on any given day.

In 2016, PG&E, environmental groups and unions representing plant workers agreed to close the facility by 2025. But the Legislature voided the deal in 2022 after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom reversed his position and said the power is needed to ward off blackouts as the state transitions to renewables and climate change stresses California's energy system.