Could the US Phase Out Nuclear Power? 657
mdsolar writes "In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, [German Chancellor] Merkel announced that her country would close all of its 17 existing reactors by 2022. Other nations, including Japan, Italy, and Switzerland, have announced plans to pare back nuclear power, but none have gone as far as Germany, the world's fourth-largest economy. Merkel vows to replace nuclear power with alternatives that do not increase greenhouse gases or shackle the economic growth. Could the US do the same? An increasing number of reports suggest it is not beyond the realm of possibility, and Germany could provide a road map."
Re:FUD article (Score:5, Funny)
all the extra land required to build these alternatives.
No worries, nothing bad has ever happened because Germany decided they needed more land.
It's all very straightforward.. (Score:3, Funny)
Germany will fill the gap using dung fired power plants using all the horse crap from the state mandated horse based transportation system. Though of course, fossil fuel based transportation will remain available to citizens making above a certain amount of Deutschmarks and the political class since they have important business to conduct. All nice and tidy, and somewhere in all that crap, there's a pony!
Probably (Score:4, Funny)
We could also, if we wished, eradicate widespread vaccination and the refrigeration of food.
Re:A poison by any other name.... (Score:2, Funny)
I was going to read your comment, but I was so weirded out by the fact that somebody on the Internet indents paragraphs.
Re:FUD article (Score:5, Funny)
Das vooooosssshhhhh!