tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post1752752688410688387..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: Eli Outsources to WikileaksEliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-39806103913403654332012-06-26T03:05:43.067-04:002012-06-26T03:05:43.067-04:00Yes, but the up time of the plants that exist(ed) ...Yes, but the up time of the plants that exist(ed) increased enormously so, in the end it is almost certainly been a Swedish push if not a gain. It is also worth noting that many of the oldest plants have been closed and decommissioned.EliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-51470877504248137522012-06-25T23:11:01.386-04:002012-06-25T23:11:01.386-04:00Issa's point that the US nuclear industry came...Issa's point that the US nuclear industry came to a near standstill is more or less correct. About half of all planned US reactors were never built. This has theoretically increased the carbon intensity of our electricity generation. <br /><br />2 questions: if nuclear expansion had continued at the 1970's rate: <br />A) would we be using as much natural gas (vs. coal and oil) for electricity generation? <br />and: <br />B) would the existing reactors have increased their capacity factors and operating lifetimes (which increased nuclear energy's share of the generation mix without building new reactors)? <br />Factors such as these could have diluted the climate benefits of a nuclear expansion.<br /><br />From the links provided by J Bowers and Susan I'm getting a picture of Issa as a technically savvy, charismatic, sly, dogged, and perhaps slightly slimy individual. <br /><br />I wish he were on our side.<br /><br />And given his past statements, why the hell isn't he?<br /><br />-HAUS.MAUSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-90683582838915252532012-06-25T21:59:20.982-04:002012-06-25T21:59:20.982-04:00So, how many nuke plants were actually cancelled a...<i>So, how many nuke plants were actually cancelled after Three Mile Island's blowdown, and how many as a result of that incident? I'll bet it's half the number Issa thinks it is.</i><br /><br />Most (all?) in the US were cancelled because they were too costly. Next you'll get the "overburdened" w/regulation whine, which if you check NRC incident reports turns out to be false; it's clear from the style of near-misses routinely occurring that there's barely enough regulation as it stands. <br /><br />Traditional nuke plants are too complicated and fragile to be safe around human nature. We can design and build them but we're too faulty to be allowed to be operators. Newer models, who knows?dbostromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13885863615343906724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-17178202783989493612012-06-25T21:22:30.972-04:002012-06-25T21:22:30.972-04:00Yeah, that one.
So, how many nuke plants were ac...Yeah, that one. <br /><br />So, how many nuke plants were actually cancelled after Three Mile Island's blowdown, and how many as a result of that incident? I'll bet it's half the number Issa thinks it is.Ed Darrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056539160596825210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-61753855682593661852012-06-25T14:38:58.136-04:002012-06-25T14:38:58.136-04:00Well color me stoopid, that is why they call me &q...Well color me stoopid, that is why they call me "Hey Stoopid".<br /><br />Say, is that the same Darrryl Issa, who funded, out of his own pocket, the Governor Joseph "Gray" Davis recall petition? <br /><br />Was that the same Darryl, that was pipped at the post, by Arnie "I don't need a budget" Schwarzenegger? <br /><br />The very same Arnie, who totally bankrupted the once golden state in under eight years, Conan the Barbarian Style. To this day, 20% of the see no evil, hear no evil, head in the denial sands conservative voters believe Arnie the budget killer, is was and remains the second coming, since asleep at the wheel Ronald Reagan occupied the governors palace, with the insane proposition 13. Proposition 13, is why California, is in the mess, it is today.<br /><br />I guess, some things never change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-54128090986510423522012-06-25T11:35:02.489-04:002012-06-25T11:35:02.489-04:00Then there's this, which is rather long. Some...Then there's this, which is rather long. Some stones and glass houses questions, but he doesn't seem to have a problem with pretending:<br /><br />http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/24/110124fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=allsusanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16829151452002682271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-23443117484122718322012-06-25T03:57:20.255-04:002012-06-25T03:57:20.255-04:00It's sometomes worth restricting Google search...It's sometomes worth restricting <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/#q=%22darrell+issa%22+%22climate+change%22&hl=en&tbo=1&output=search&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:y&sa=X&ei=FBnoT-GVGeek0AXjkKCVCQ&ved=0CAsQpwUoBQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=74324fdbd5301c1b&biw=1365&bih=683" rel="nofollow">Google searches to the last year only.</a>J Bowersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-70730795260027087282012-06-25T03:47:17.258-04:002012-06-25T03:47:17.258-04:00As the Chair of the Oversight and Government Refor...As the Chair of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee Issa IS hardly without power.<br /><br />Actually Issa just recently made national news as his committee voted Atty Gen Holder in contempt of congress regarding the "Fast and Furious" program started under the Bush administration.<br /><br />Political insanity progresses exponentially in our era, so something said in 2005 means nothing in 2012. <br /><br />Let us not fall into the trap of believing every word found on websites especially the website of a filthy rich GOP whack job.<br /><br />John PumaJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12479974040070719985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-2862072428073521852012-06-25T01:44:34.770-04:002012-06-25T01:44:34.770-04:00Issa is the richest currently-serving CongressCrit...Issa is the richest currently-serving CongressCritter (net worth $450M from his auto theft alarm business).<br /> <br />Issa's pretty conservative, so it's encouraging that he has shown himself not brain-dead on the climate change issue. <br /><br />The last time Darryl Issa made the national news was in 2001, when the Jewish Defense Organization (a splinter group from the Jewish Defense League) planned to bomb Issa's district office. The JDO was caught before they bombed anything, and their head honcho, Irv Rubin, went to jail, where he lived happily ever after until he committed suicide.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575837647825433144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-7417795619287048272012-06-24T23:09:52.927-04:002012-06-24T23:09:52.927-04:00Issa is also saner than most on topics like SOPA/P...Issa is also saner than most on topics like SOPA/PIPA. Unfortunately he's also as crazy as some when it comes to net neutrality. <br /><br />-WheelsOCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-14855186302474167462012-06-24T21:26:11.079-04:002012-06-24T21:26:11.079-04:00But Issa is a very busy man, trying to find eviden...But Issa is a very busy man, trying to find evidence of something he says there is no evidence for. He has no time for trifles like clean air. Priorities, people.anthrosciguynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-89253381583791261682012-06-24T16:35:43.293-04:002012-06-24T16:35:43.293-04:00From Issa's own website:
http://issa.house.gov...From Issa's own website:<br />http://issa.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=207%3Aglobal-climate-change&catid=40&Itemid=67<br /><br /><i>"Now is the time to encourage the development of zero-emission clean energy generation, such as nuclear, hydro-electricity, wind, solar, all of which can meet our energy needs now and replace older and dirtier fossil fuel generation."</i><br /><br />If only Mr. Issa were in some position of influence and power, whereby he could actually do something about it...<br /><br />I just can't wrap my head around the position we find ourselves in, let alone how we can move forward.<br /><br />-HAUS.MAUSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com