CSRA desperately needs nuclear power

Hey, I have a great plan that will help the CSRA: keep the nuclear power we do have in GA not selling it to other states!! We're paying for it's construction, maintenance and lives after all!!

Has anyone read the Lensman Series. Well, that's what nuclear power can eventually come to if pursued long enough. "More Nukes, More Nukes"

I see Sandy has no idea how the electric grid works either. just keeps revealing more and more ignorance every day.

Sister, it ain't no "electric grid" sweetie, it's about $$$$$$$. Out of state power gives our GA power more money per kilowatt sold, but we're still stuck with the bill for the plants. Do you like to be robbed? Apparently so, dummy.

So....just isolate Ga by severing the grid that you say doesn't exist, and live off of your own power. Are there any other topics that you would care to let everyone know that you know nothing about?

I want to live off my own power, why I wish the GA Powers of the world would stop their interference in Cold Fusion research -- like preventing funding for it with their petty antics. And you don't have a clue, as you spend your days playing the class clown and being spoonfed. What ever "actiongram" you get you mouth off, it's like your some robot preprogrammed out of 1984 and Clockwork Orange. Believing loyalty is being a lemming. Now go find a cliff, 'K.

Sandy if Ga Power did not sell the excess power on the grid your bill would be a lot higher. Those sales to other utilities in other areas of the country at market prices are what keeps your bill one of the lowest in the nation. What you are talking about is science fiction and just like the alternatives too costly to pay a return. To build a solar power system equivalent to one reactor would cost two to three times the price of a nuclear reactor. Are you willing to foot that bill?

Also dingbat do you not realize that Gulf power, alabama power, florida power and georgia power are part of the same corporation?

Now Sandy is a Fusion expert! OMG! Tell us Sandy..... How much energy is released when you fuse an H-1 atom with an H-3 atom? In what form is this energy? Where does the energy come from? If you can't answer that (which I'm positive you can't) then provide some sort of evidence that GA power has in any way interfered with Cold fusion research.

Nuclear power plants, (and most other power plants for that matter) operate at greatest efficiency when at near full capacity. Sandy's solution is to only supply local needs, thereby reducing efficiency, thereby increasing price. Way to go Sandy.

plant vogtle is planning 2 more(why didn't they build them in the 80"s would have been cheaper)sce&g is planning 2 over here,and santee wants 2 coal burning plants.why all of a sudden do we need all this power? could it be lucrative to build them,while we pay for them,then you sell the energy to other states,and pocket the profits?

why all of a sudden do we need all this power? ??????????? Maybe because more people have increased the demand? What a concept.

Being told I don't have a clue from Sandy? That's the best laugh I've gotten all day. Present facts and it's considered "mouthing off." That's rich.

sister 4 reactors and 2 coal burning ones? it's about money sweeetie! ask the letter writer, he ran srs for years,i'm sure he has some stock here that he wants to see go through the roof.how many of these companies sell this power to other states,hello?

Sandy cold fusion research is still ongoing and being funded. It is met with skeptism because of the controversy over Fleischmann-Pons original work, but a number of nobel laureates support the notion and there are still conferences debating the issue. Thirteen papers were presented at the "Cold Fusion" session of the March 2006 American Physical Society meeting. In 2007, the American Chemical Society held an "invited symposium" on cold fusion and low-energy nuclear reactions. Cold fusion reports have been published in Naturwissenschaften, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, European Physical Journal A, European Physical Journal C, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Journal of Solid State Phenomena, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, and Journal of Fusion Energy. Apparently a number of theoretical issues require much proof before the scientific community will embrace the notion with impunity. But Stanley Prusiner suffered similar rejection with his notion of prions and eventually after a couple of decades his ideas became acceptable and he was awarded a Nobel Prize. Patience is a virtue.

Sandy you have a tendency to make statements that in essence it is so because I say it is so. Then you personally attack those who make lucid cogent arguments and accuse them of smoke and mirrors. But apparently you use the smoke and mirrors as you don't address their facts with any logical discourse. Try a civil debate using argumentation theory (which precludes personal attacks) and backing up your claims with facts. You seem very amateurish and immature have you ever attended a college or university? Calling SisterX names doesn't negate his arguments. You claim Ga Power is preventing funding when it is scientist. Japan, France, and most other countries have abandoned cold fusion is my understanding but physics isn't my forte and I would opt to SisX opinion since he is apparently a trained physicist. From everything I've read nuclear power is one of the most safe, cost-effective methods to produce power.

Comparing Vogtle's reactors and SRS's reactors is like comparing apples and oranges. SRS's reactors were not designed to, and have never generated a single watt of electricity. That doesn't mean that building reactors is a bad idea. Conventional fission reactors as well as colliding beam fusion reactors would be an excellent idea. And as elliotness pointed out, "it's about money sweeetie." Well of course it is. Power companies produce power for consumers to buy. They wouldn't want to produce more than was needed, or the price would go down....but elliotness, I hate to tell you, but the motive is more sinister than money. What they really want to do is have more power in the transmission lines so they can mask the mind control signals that they are beaming through them. It's all about the government trying to keep you under control, so that you won't find out more about the 911 conspiracy. (that should ruffle up the tin foil hat!)

"Now Sandy is a Fusion expert!" ----- Never claimed to be God, but I do know about this subject. See I spend a lot of time reading, and tracking things down (as I'm a researcher). The reason I know about so many subjects is, I don't spend my days being a robot being reprogrammed everyday or the forum clown. Every day I will spend 4+ hrs reading news and subjects that I follow. Be it medicine; science subjects; politics; history; and my various art interests. While you like soap operas here, I spend my days watching soap operas that can affect our daily lives, as I want to know what's going on and WHY. This is how I found out about Cold Fusion. Now do your own homework, no cheating.

Biz.....Sandy's 1:17 post was predicted with 100% accuracy by your 11:50 post.

"Never claimed to be God, but I do know about this subject"..... OK...how much energy is released from the fusion of H-1 and H-3? What form is the energy in? Where does the energy come from, since energy can neither be created or destroyed? We'll be waiting for you to prove that you "know about the subject."

Well you must be wasting your time reading as you don't apparently understand what you read as you are full of misinformation-like Cold Fusion isn't being funded or pursued because of politics. Seems the evidence is otherwise and the reasons it isn't hotly pursued is scientists (expert peers in the field) seem to have major problems with the feasibility. You have never attended a college or university have you? I think it becomes obvious to even the casual reader you just discredit or criticize but offer no rationale why-other than you say it so or any cogent arguments other than dismiss it as political or manipulated by some entity.

Quote from "A fish called Wanda."
Otto: "Apes don't read philosophy!"
Wanda:"Yes they do Otto, they just don't understand it."

I can read a book about how an auto works and is made, but that doesn't make me a mechanic or actually have the ability to build a car. Reading about a subject doesn't mean you understand nor can apply the knowledge. If that were so we wouldn't need schools or mentors, and any joe blow could perform brain surgery because they read a book and slept at a Holiday Inn.

SisterA. Building an SRP reactor was fully as difficult as building a modern power reactor, perhaps more so because the SRP reactors were the first in the world of their type. The Hanford reactors were also built in about a year and they were the first reactors ever built, anywhere. Modern power reactors can be exact copies of reactors operating elsewhere, made from identical components. You might find how long it takes to build a power reactor elsewhere in the world, where nutty anti-nukes have not poisoned public opinion with untruths.

True fredinaiken....I'm just pointing out that it is pointless to compare the 2....other than having nuclear fuel, they really have almost no similarities. Commercial reactors produce heat, and neutrons are a side effect. Production reactors produce neutrons, and heat is a side effect.

Thank State Sen Balfour (Republican) for bypassing the Public Service Commission and letting us pay for this in advance. Why does the LTE writer and others keep saying that nuclear is so cheap? One even said it's almost free. If it's so cheap, the shareholders of the Southern Co should be willing to take the risk and build them. Since the Southern Co just announced a $.42dividend per share and has paid a dividend every quarter since 1948. Do a search and look at a graph of stock performance for other electric utilities vs the Southern Co. The SC way outperforms the others. Is it perchance because the stockholders don't have to shoulder any share of expansion? Of course Balfour's bill exempts large industries and businesses (who use large amounts of power) so all the burden will be on small businesses and homeowners. What a great deal for the elderly, you get to pay for a plant that won't be online until well after you're gone. Wish the AC would do a story on who voted for the bill, how much SC stock they own, and how much the SC gave them in campaign contributions.

TechLover....the shareholders aren't the one's who grant permits to build.

Can y'all get a room?