yellowcanoe wrote:.... as nuclear plants are retired we will start depending more and more on natural gas fired electricity.
Yes. Thats what Germany did. But its very short-sighted. Greenhouse warming is going to cook the planet from all the CO2 being released by Germany, China, India, Indonesia,the US, and other countries.
After Germany phased out their nuclear they fired up more coal-fired electrical power plants. Now Germany mines and uses more low grade brown coal (lignite) then any country in the world. This is the worst possible kind of coal to burn. Its a disgrace, really.
NG isn't much better. The NG fired plants the US is switching to and that Ontario, Canada is going to build need NG well and pipelines that release significant amounts of methane---and methane is an even worse greenhouse gas then CO2.
Nuclear power releases ZERO CO2----its crazy to be shutting down nuclear power to switch to coal and NG, because this just adds to the amount of Greenhouse Gases going into the atmosphere.
Cheers!
its crazy to be shutting down nuclear power to switch to coal and NG because this just adds to the amount of Greenhouse Gases going into the atmosphere