by Michael Swickard, Ph.D. - While the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, many political aftershocks are being felt strongly in our country. Much debate involves nuclear energy being used for domestic power generation. Sadly, so much being said about nuclear energy generation just is not so. When it comes to nuclear power generation, we Americans are standing on a whale fishing for minnows. We have no vision. It all starts with our national energy policy. Shuckins, that is right, we do not have one. When Americans talk about energy policy, we are blind. Worse than blind, stupid. Worse than blind and stupid, intentionally so. While leaking radiation is bad, having no power at all is far much worse because in our world today no power equals humans who cannot survive. Power is life, lack of power is death. A month without any energy in New Mexico and most of the population would be dead. Not suffering, dead. All that sustains our lives starts with energy. And we, as a nation, have no coherent energy policy. Read
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Swickard Column: Those things that are far worse than a radiation leak
by Michael Swickard, Ph.D. - While the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, many political aftershocks are being felt strongly in our country. Much debate involves nuclear energy being used for domestic power generation. Sadly, so much being said about nuclear energy generation just is not so. When it comes to nuclear power generation, we Americans are standing on a whale fishing for minnows. We have no vision. It all starts with our national energy policy. Shuckins, that is right, we do not have one. When Americans talk about energy policy, we are blind. Worse than blind, stupid. Worse than blind and stupid, intentionally so. While leaking radiation is bad, having no power at all is far much worse because in our world today no power equals humans who cannot survive. Power is life, lack of power is death. A month without any energy in New Mexico and most of the population would be dead. Not suffering, dead. All that sustains our lives starts with energy. And we, as a nation, have no coherent energy policy. Read column News New Mexico
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Heck, examining the Fukushima Diiachi plant site using Google Earth, it looks like natural bluffs were removed in order to bring the grade level closer to sea level. The bluffs quickly rise to about 100 ft above sea level, then continue rising more slowly. The advantages of putting the plant near sea level is that there is much less pumping head required when moving the sea water (condenser cooling water) from the ocean to the turbine condensers, and the whole plant site is almost invisible when looking out to sea (westward) from a point inland. But then, hindsight is always 20/20.
Easy for you to say. How about denying an illegal alien terrorist or a Mexican drug lord a New Mexico drivers license? By the democratic party's standards this would be substantially worse...unthinkable. How else would these common criminals navigate U.S. highways on a mission to cause a nuclear disaster or murder a member of a competing drug cartel, a Mexican law enforcement official hiding or seeking asylum in America? What will they do if they can't depend on New Mexico's democratic party for state issued credentials?
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