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Comment by Mark Hedtke on February 7, 2012 at 12:15am As the weeks have rolled into years and renewable energy continues to be dissed by most energy companies to continue the status quo, I can't help but respond to these naysayers! I find that those who continue to make the claim that "nuclear" is the only answer, are either naive or stupid or both. Why do I respond this way? Easy, look at the lack of controls, safety features, security and the just plain general poor contingency plans at nuclear "power plants" any where! The only intelligence regarding recognition of the problem has been made by Germany, who also once thought that they had the ultimate power solution, with nuclear.
Germany now has become near the forefront of the World’s renewable energy sector for the past several years. In 2000, the unique Renewable Energy Act (EEG) was proposed as a replacement to the 1991 Electricity Feed Act by a bipartisan group of elected representatives from the German Parliament (Deutsche Bundestag). The most vociferous champion of the EEG was the late Dr. Hermann Scheer. He was instrumental in both popularizing the EEG in Germany and assisting other jurisdictions that wished to adopt similar measures to understand the principles of the EEG and to use these principles to develop their renewable energy and green economy.
The EEG represented a tremendous forward advance in the procurement of various forms of renewable energy around the World due to its three (3) main principles.
The three main principles of the EEG were (and remain):
a)Investment protection through guaranteed feed-in tariffs and connection requirement.
b)No charge to a nation's public purse.
c)Innovation by falling feed-in-tariffs.
The unfortunate natural events at Fukushima that led to the World’s most recent nuclear disaster have highlighted that the fact not only is nuclear expensive to build and expensive to operate (especially unsubsidized by the public) - but that it is also extremely risky to operate.
Having been in the path of the fallout of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 25 years ago, German voters were the first to wake up and put their politicians on notice, after Fukushima, that the risk of nuclear power generation was no longer acceptable and they demanded an immediate and irrevocable remedy – the suspension and permanent closing of all of Germany’s nuclear reactors.
Will it take another even greater disaster, than 3 Mile Island in the US, for US voters to wake up and to "dump nuclear" like the Germans have? I fear that the US voter has become too ignorant and historically fails to support a long term solution to anything! A look back on the rape of the US consumer by the oil, automobile and electric industries here in the US for the 40 plus years is appalling and disgusting. The constant sales pitch and the down right lies misrepresenting the danger of nuclear should send every responsible voter to demand an immediate and irrevocable remedy – the suspension and permanent closing of all of the US's nuclear reactors as well. The failure by our government to put together a long term energy plan to Free Us From Remaining Energy Prisoners is unconscionable! This article should open your eyes to Energy History.
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