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California Governor Says 100 Percent Clean Electricity Not Enough, State Must Go Carbon Neutral (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill mandating that the state's utilities move to 100-percent zero-emission electricity generation by 2045. Brown also issued an executive order today requiring the state to become carbon neutral by 2045, that is, mandating that the state remove as much greenhouse gas from the atmosphere as it puts into the atmosphere. One of the most interesting aspects of the zero-emissions bill signed today is that it also specifies that California can't increase the carbon emissions of another state to get cheap electricity. It appears that buying electricity from a coal plant in Nevada is fine if that electricity had been supplied prior to the bill's passing, but seeking out new out-of-state natural gas-fired plants to buy from would not be allowed. The bill's ambitiousness is compounded by the executive order that Gov. Brown signed today. The order requires California to become carbon neutral by 2045. "The achievement of carbon neutrality will require both significant reductions in carbon pollution and removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, including sequestration in forests, soils, and other natural landscapes," Brown's executive order states (PDF).
You first, Jerry; let's see how long you can hold your breath.
Thatâ(TM)s a random from your ass number. Do you also know the -correct- global average temperature?
that is the problem with nuclear... it takes years to cool down and then many more years to disable that nuclear plan, you will get tons of radioactive material and you can't simply forget about it. hell, you will still be do maintenance work on it, to keep it contained. in about 100 years, that place will still be unusable, unless you spend a huge fortune to transfer almost everything of it to another place (that still will be unusable for many years and with health problems to the workers)
The best you can do is to build a new one next to that one, so you can reuse many of the infrastructure, but that's it.
Nuclear looks good until you start talking about the cleanup and disposal (be accidental, EOL, maintenance, fuel, etc) ... no one want to look at it because we are talking in several generations doing that cleanup and maintenance, that gets impossible to calculate.
Every nuclear support hope that in the future, people find a way to solve that kind of problems... but unless there is a teleporter, a radiation magnet, or some unknown quantum feature to filter radioactive atoms, it can't really be solved
This is not a big structures, its radioactive atoms with huge middle life for decaying, you can't speed up that
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Yup. Even a high level intellectual labor force needs its servants. Don't worry in a few years we will invent robots to replace most of them. Just like we already replaced flyover inhabitants with robots. Turns out a servant without a high school degree is harder to replace than a Texan.