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Central New York Nuclear Plants Struggle To Avoid Financial Meltdown
mdsolar writes "As recently as four years ago, nuclear power companies were planning to spend billions of dollars to build a new reactor in Oswego County, alongside three existing nuclear plants. Then the bottom fell out. Natural gas-burning power plants that benefit from a glut of cheap gas produced by hydrofracking cut wholesale electricity prices in half. Now the outlook for nuclear power plants is so bleak that Wall Street analysts say one or more Upstate nuclear plants could go out of business if conditions don't change. Two Upstate nukes in particular — the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego County and the R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant in nearby Wayne County — are high on the watch list of plants that industry experts say are at risk of closing for economic reasons."
Absolute fucking bullshit. We've been using hydraulic fracturing for years. It's not "trashing" the place at all.
You dorks want what you can't have. Waste-free energy. It doesn't exist, it's not theoretically or practically possible. We energy professionals live in the real world. You computer geeks live in a fantasy land. You insist on creating products that consume vast amounts of electricity in the aggregate, and then insult the very people who help provide that electricty to you.
Frankly I don't care if it goes dark. The computer nerds will be the first to die off.