Comments on: National Renewable Energy Lab Looks at Proposed U.S. Electricity Standards http://cleantechnica.com/2009/06/02/national-renewable-energy-lab-looks-at-proposed-us-standards/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Steve http://cleantechnica.com/2009/06/02/national-renewable-energy-lab-looks-at-proposed-us-standards/#comment-6567 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:43:04 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2586#comment-6567 Solar PV and Thermal are great things, but they will never cut down on carbon emissions. They simply can not produce enough power for the masses. The only thing right now that can drastically cut down on carbon emissions is nuclear energy. If your seriously worried about climate change like I am, you have to get serious and understand that we need nuclear. We will simply have to find a way to handle the waste. Maybe blast it into outer space? Re-enrich the used uranium? I’m no nuclear tech, and I want to live off-grid more than anything, but we have to stop burning coal and nuclear is the only way.

]]> By: Steve http://cleantechnica.com/2009/06/02/national-renewable-energy-lab-looks-at-proposed-us-standards/#comment-22966 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:43:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2586#comment-22966 Solar PV and Thermal are great things, but they will never cut down on carbon emissions. They simply can not produce enough power for the masses. The only thing right now that can drastically cut down on carbon emissions is nuclear energy. If your seriously worried about climate change like I am, you have to get serious and understand that we need nuclear. We will simply have to find a way to handle the waste. Maybe blast it into outer space? Re-enrich the used uranium? I’m no nuclear tech, and I want to live off-grid more than anything, but we have to stop burning coal and nuclear is the only way.

]]> By: kevin http://cleantechnica.com/2009/06/02/national-renewable-energy-lab-looks-at-proposed-us-standards/#comment-6566 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:43:13 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2586#comment-6566 Best plan is plan 4 = carbon tax.

May not be palatable, but neither is climate change

]]> By: kevin http://cleantechnica.com/2009/06/02/national-renewable-energy-lab-looks-at-proposed-us-standards/#comment-22964 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:43:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2586#comment-22964 Best plan is plan 4 = carbon tax.

May not be palatable, but neither is climate change

]]> By: kevin http://cleantechnica.com/2009/06/02/national-renewable-energy-lab-looks-at-proposed-us-standards/#comment-22965 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:43:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2586#comment-22965 Best plan is plan 4 = carbon tax.

May not be palatable, but neither is climate change

]]> By: Chris Kaiser http://cleantechnica.com/2009/06/02/national-renewable-energy-lab-looks-at-proposed-us-standards/#comment-6565 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:15:10 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2586#comment-6565 I added a section to my blog yesterday looking at where we current get our electricity from:

http://blog.mapawatt.com/tidbits/electricity-graphics/

If you scroll to the bottom, you can see that Solar PV and Thermal provide .01% of our power gen!

I’m a big fan of a National RPS. I would rather Congress focus on that than a cap/trade system because a RPS system is harder to cheat on.

Also, emissions from one state can blow into another state, so it makes sense for it to be nationally regulated.

]]> By: Chris Kaiser http://cleantechnica.com/2009/06/02/national-renewable-energy-lab-looks-at-proposed-us-standards/#comment-22962 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:15:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2586#comment-22962 I added a section to my blog yesterday looking at where we current get our electricity from:

http://blog.mapawatt.com/tidbits/electricity-graphics/

If you scroll to the bottom, you can see that Solar PV and Thermal provide .01% of our power gen!

I’m a big fan of a National RPS. I would rather Congress focus on that than a cap/trade system because a RPS system is harder to cheat on.

Also, emissions from one state can blow into another state, so it makes sense for it to be nationally regulated.

]]> By: Chris Kaiser http://cleantechnica.com/2009/06/02/national-renewable-energy-lab-looks-at-proposed-us-standards/#comment-22963 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:15:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2586#comment-22963 I added a section to my blog yesterday looking at where we current get our electricity from:

http://blog.mapawatt.com/tidbits/electricity-graphics/

If you scroll to the bottom, you can see that Solar PV and Thermal provide .01% of our power gen!

I’m a big fan of a National RPS. I would rather Congress focus on that than a cap/trade system because a RPS system is harder to cheat on.

Also, emissions from one state can blow into another state, so it makes sense for it to be nationally regulated.

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