<story><title>2015 “smashed” 2014’s global temperature record</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/01/20/its-official-2015-smashed-2014s-global-temperature-record-it-wasnt-even-close/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ps4fanboy</author><text>Nuclear Power, until those who care about the environment accept that the only clean at scale power solution for base load is nuclear power we will get no where. &amp;quot;Renewables&amp;quot; are great and should be in the mix but they are not an at scale solution.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www3.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;climatechange&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;ghgemissions&amp;#x2F;sources-overview.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www3.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;climatechange&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;ghgemissions&amp;#x2F;source...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;By going mostly electric for our transportation and nuclear for power generation we could really make a dent in 58% of this pie.&lt;p&gt;There are people who simultaneous worry a tremendous amount about global warming who will actively protest against nuclear power.&lt;p&gt;All while an extremely large amount of pollution is being burned all around us. Be reasonable we need a now solution or there wont be a when.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucisferre</author><text>This plan seems to ignore the growth curves of renewables.&lt;p&gt;By the time any nuclear power expansion plan gets into place exponential growth in photovoltaics and other renewable technologies will have taken over.&lt;p&gt;Nuclear power would have been a great idea, if we had started at least 10 or 20 years ago. It is unfortunate &amp;quot;environmentalists&amp;quot; did such a disservice to the environment, but we&amp;#x27;re long past the point of Nuclear being a viable solution.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Growth_of_photovoltaics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Growth_of_photovoltaics&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>2015 “smashed” 2014’s global temperature record</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/01/20/its-official-2015-smashed-2014s-global-temperature-record-it-wasnt-even-close/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ps4fanboy</author><text>Nuclear Power, until those who care about the environment accept that the only clean at scale power solution for base load is nuclear power we will get no where. &amp;quot;Renewables&amp;quot; are great and should be in the mix but they are not an at scale solution.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www3.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;climatechange&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;ghgemissions&amp;#x2F;sources-overview.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www3.epa.gov&amp;#x2F;climatechange&amp;#x2F;images&amp;#x2F;ghgemissions&amp;#x2F;source...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;By going mostly electric for our transportation and nuclear for power generation we could really make a dent in 58% of this pie.&lt;p&gt;There are people who simultaneous worry a tremendous amount about global warming who will actively protest against nuclear power.&lt;p&gt;All while an extremely large amount of pollution is being burned all around us. Be reasonable we need a now solution or there wont be a when.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akamaka</author><text>If we can go mostly electric for our transportation, as you suggest, that means we have cheap and plentiful battery storage. If we can easily store power, there&amp;#x27;s not much advantage for using nuclear power over wind and solar.</text></comment>