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Old 06-09-2013, 12:06 PM
 
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No doubt this rate increase has something to do with shutting down San Onofre. That plant locally produced enough power for 1.4 million homes 24/7 and it was perfectly safe but it seems the anti-science/anti-nuclear folks scared the politicians into shutting down the largest local source of electricity. The nuclear plant was green house gas free, employed local workers, and now we'll be using dirty coal fired electricity from Arizona. This is just dumb, dumb, dumb.
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Old 06-09-2013, 12:13 PM
 
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no doubt this rate increase has something to do with shutting down san onofre. That plant locally produced enough power for 1.4 million homes 24/7 and it was perfectly safe but it seems the anti-science/anti-nuclear folks scared the politicians into shutting down the largest local source of electricity. The nuclear plant was green house gas free, employed local workers, and now we'll be using dirty coal fired electricity from arizona. This is just dumb, dumb, dumb.
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Nuclear is one of the cleanest energy supplies available.
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Old 06-09-2013, 12:26 PM
 
Location: 92037
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I agree futbol with regards to nuclear power. There is no question how the benefits stack up with nuclear.

But I think the real issue was getting the plant up and running and the costs associated with it. Not so much the anti-scientists pushing it for to close, although they were a small part of the equation.

I have never heard about a rise in burning coal to offset this either.

This is a GREAT article explaining how this all went down and there is a nice pie chart that shows where CAs power comes from.

San Onofre shutdown will mean tight electricity supplies - latimes.com
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Old 06-10-2013, 07:37 AM
 
Location: San Diego
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Tight supplies. Wow, where have we heard that before.
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