New York governor Andrew Cuomo has announced plans to shut down the zero carbon Indiana Point Nuclear Plant, as part of his grand strategy to combat climate change.
New York Aims to Replace Nuclear Power With Clean Energy
Gov. Cuomo promises declining carbon emissions even as the state closes the Indian Point nuclear power plant.
By Jeremy Deaton
New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced plans this week to close the Indian Point nuclear power plant, which supplies electricity to New York City and surrounding areas. The plant’s two working reactors — which account for roughly 10 percent of the state’s power generation — are slated to go offline in 2020 and 2021, more than a decade ahead of schedule.
Some environmentalists celebrated the closure. Others lamented the loss of a carbon-free source of energy, despite nuclear power’s potential hazards to humans and wildlife.
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Some states, like Illinois, have thrown a lifeline to nuclear, subsidizing struggling plants, lest they be replaced by carbon-spewing natural gas. New York, by contrast, is betting that the hole created by Indian Point’s closure will be filled with solar, wind and hydropower.
In a statement, Cuomo said the plant’s closure won’t drive up emissions “at the regional level.” Given New York’s ambitious climate policies, he might be right.
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Read more: https://nexusmedianews.com/new-york-aims-to-replace-nuclear-power-with-clean-energy-468de752634
New York may have the hydro resources to replace Indiana Point, but even dispatchable hydro-electric systems have their pitfalls. States which rely heavily on hydro power face difficulties if the water runs out, as the Australian state of Tasmania recently discovered.
Having said that, it seems likely that New York has or will have enough interstate power interconnectors to ensure continuity, which will allow Governor Cuomo to virtue signal all he wants from behind a safety net of reliable out of state fossil fuel power sources.
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Cuomo is determined, it seems, to bring back the “dumb wop” slur as a viable and accurate epithet.
He has already this week earned a lot of well-deserved hatred for his migrant actions. Realistically, by the shutdown time frame, expect molten salt reactors to becomes commercialized – just in time for Cuomo’s successor to buy several.
“States which rely heavily on hydro power face difficulties if the water runs out, as the Australian state of Tasmania recently discovered”.
New York can afford to do this because their hydro comes from Quebec – the largest hydro system in the world. The real stupid thing is that all the world WILL be nuclear or, if we’re lucky, fusion energy – but really that is nuclear too. We will run fossil fuels down and nuke is the natural successor -not solar or windmills. Also, world population currently stands at 85% of peak (~2050). The totalitarians have only 35 years to get their scam accepted because there will be no “problem” to milk after that. They have to get the CO2 under control before it shows itself to not be a problem so they can claim they saved the world.
Correction – … it is unlikely…
“Having said that, it seems likely that New York has or will have enough interstate power interconnectors to ensure continuity, ”
http://naturalgasnow.org/1000-miles-new-power-lines-cost-renewables-ny/
So, rely on power from a foreign country?
Canada may be a US ally and trading partner, but that to me would be a security risk.
A terrorist attack on the Canadian side of the border at the right time could bring down a significant part of the US grid.
Do that in the depths of a harsh winter, and a lot of people could freeze to death.
Better shutdown than meltdown!
Your grandchildren will be quite cozy with the only alternative that works, nuclear as fossil fuels run down and become more expensive.
” fossil fuels run down” only because environazi hacks in government are shutting off access to them. Just as they are shutting off access to nuclear and hydro electric generation, and they have now begun the efforts to shut off access to wind and solar. What, again, is the “alternative” source they want us to use? They are against ALL electricity generation, so exactly what is their final goal?
Why don’t you try learning something before displaying your ignorance?
“Better shutdown than meltdown!”
Really! One cold winter night we had a test to scam the reactor. The load dispatcher said no. He said many would die if he lost one more power plant.
A melt down is only property damage.
The climate change we are experiencing today is caused by the sun and the oceans over which Mankind including governor Como, has no control. There is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and plenty of scientific reasoning to support the idea that the climate sensivity of CO2 is really zero. Even if all sources of CO2 were shut down in the State of New York it would have no effect on global climate. If climate change could be stopped dead in its tracks we would still experience extreme weather events and sea level rise because they are part of our current climate. Maybe they would be better off stopping all forms of transportation that makes use of fossil fuels. The horse breaders would really like that. Another approach would be to replace greater New York City with the woodlands that were there before Mankind destroyed them.
I think the environment people want us to live like in middle ages. But that’s not possible, not with 7-10 billion people on earth. So there is no way around innovative energy managing. Whatever.
What ever we do, Mankind must switch to alternate sources of energy before the Earth’s finite supply of fossil fuels runs out. Mankind must gradually reduce the Earth’s human population enough so that the alternate sources of energy will supply Mankind’s needs. It is the problem of Mankind’s out of control population that we can solve and need to be solving. If Mankind does not control his own population then Nature will, catastrophically.
In other words, we have to get off this planet. Let those timid souls who fear the dark huddle here in fear, Humanity must go forth.
NO!
Andrew The Insane is always good for a laugh.
Eric, Moderator, whomever. Make a note that California has already begun the process to shut down the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant for the same reason. It defies logic and economics.
I’ll be dead soon. That’s my consolation.
“I’m no engineer ….”
I am an engineer whose primary specialty is nuclear safety. After supervising the operation of US Navy nuke ships, I went to work at civilian plants. While I interviewed at Indian Point and was offered a job, I ended up at a BWR (same design as the larger plant at Fukushima) during construction and startup just south in Pennsylvania.
Part of my training, is making decisions during an emergency. We have guidelines for what we can do to save a life and protect property. So I would risk radiation poisoning to stop bleeding of a coworker but not to protect property.
“went critical because the power transmission towers were knocked over by the tsunami.”
A reactor is said to be ‘critical’ if the nuclear chain reaction is self sustaining. Reactors are designed to safely shutdown in all situations including seismic events. No reactor designed to US standards has ever failed to safely shut down because of an earthquake including those at Fukushima.
What was not designed for was the magnitude of the the tsunami. We do design for the unexpected including an extend loss of AC power. We call them ‘beyond design basis events’.
“water tower like the ones you see near so many cities”
Here is the rub when dealing with the unexpected, all the suggesting made by those who think others are stupid, none of those would have worked either.
At TMI and Japan, core damage was delayed and release out of the containment was slow. No one was hurt from radiation. The plant manager pulled his workers back when it was not longer safe because of industrial safety issues.
Curious, unbiased, asking who photographed the statue of freedom, french origin.
stumbling upon
“According to the Hungarian state audit office, Jobbik has an annual budget of $2.34 million, most of it from a state allowance to parties in parliament. Jobbik denies giving financial aid to other groups. But they were happy to invite Hromoslav Skrabak, 19-year-old leader of Slovakian fascist group Slovenska Pospolitost.”
strange, global neighborhood.
New York Aims to Replace Nuclear Power With Clean Energy
Gov. Cuomo promises declining carbon emissions even as the state closes the Indian Point nuclear power plant .
.lost in transition.
This is the best line Ive heard to sum it all up: One of the most massive scientific lies ever recorded is about to break off from a vast accumulation of propaganda and melt away.