I feel bad for him. The film doesn't explore all the facts available. The graph I thought examined energy alternatives wasn't about energy at all it was about deaths within the energy industry. He points to the lowest death rate being in the nuclear energy arena and points to industrial deaths of solar panels.
Mr. Stone knows very well China produces most of the solar panels in the world within a communist country where there are no unions or OSHA or lacking human rights violations. It was last week Siemens has shut down it's solar production industry because China under sells their product. So, the point about solar causing industrial deaths amounts to 'consider the source,' because there are none affiliated with USA production.
Stone is attempting to reinvigorate the nuclear power plant as a Democratic answer to the Climate Crisis. His premise is that providing nuclear power will eliminate the need for hydraulic fracturing. He tries to dispel any myth that all nuclear plants are bad things. He states the "Breeder Reactor" is not the horrible machine everyone makes it out to be and would be the best bridge to sanity because of the corruption of the Political Right Wing and the petroleum industry. Basically, that is what this film is about. If the Democrats can sell nuclear power to the electorate we have half a chance at actually having a planet to live on.
He believes the Liberals of the USA have been stupid and allows negative ATTITUDES about nuclear power to cause a growth in other forms of more dangerous energy such as hydrofraking. Quite possibly. But, all I know is that when President Obama stated the EPA was going to regulate CO2 emissions, the following week an oil plant was demolished including four stakes.
Oil plant demolition in Port Everglades part of a nationwide trend to decommission inefficient, costly, and polluting facilities. (click here)
July 16, 2013
Anyone who happened to be scanning the skyline in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at 6:45 a.m. Tuesday witnessed a startling transformation. In the space of a minute, the four towering 350-foot-high, candy cane-striped smokestacks at Florida Power & Light's Port Everglades oil-burning power plant—a local landmark for the past half-century—abruptly imploded and crumbled into rubble....
Mr. Stone wants to roll back all the negativity about Breeder Reactors and there is plenty and make them the savior of us all. What Mr. Stone forgets is that is nothing short of passing on the problem to the next generation, it resolves nothing. There is so much money spent on energy plants in the USA, to make these enormous investments in the billions upon billions in nuclear energy knowing that new and better sources of completely benign energy won't be realized for another half century or more is waving the white flag of political defeatism.
If those monies are spent on nuclear plants the Great Lakes will never be harnessed.
...Fast-breeder technology (click here) is almost as old as nuclear power. But after almost two decades in the wilderness, it could be poised to take off. The U.S. corporation GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) is promoting a reactor design called the PRISM (for Power Reactor Innovative Small Modular) that its chief consulting engineer and fast-breeder guru, Eric Loewen, says is a safe and secure way to power the world using yesterday’s nuclear waste....
GE. Jeffery Immelt. No wonder.
Mr. Stone sat in a film festival venue about a mile maybe from a lake known as Lake Michigan that has some of the best wind maps for wind power in the nation making light of all the sins of the past of the nuclear energy with some SUIT from DC in the audience.
Do I have to state how completely ludicrous this is? The only reason Lake Michigan and the other Great Lakes aren't harnessed for their wind capacity is the petroleum industry while Snyder plays footsie with the Koch Brothers and their natural gas profiteering that will fund their political agenda for the next three generations.
Mr. Stone has given up on the fact Americans are capable of actually making good decisions and only sell out to what is lucrative for Wall Street to harness the USA Treasury for funding. Basically, Americans are the fools Wall Street believes them to be. Honestly, sir? You have given up on any integrity left in the American citizen? That is a very sorry state to find oneself in a relationship with the American public. I would think that especially sad for a filmmaker. A documentary no less.
Alternative energies do not include Breeder Nuclear Reactors. Alternative Energies have finally gotten a foothold and now they should take a back seat to this idiocy once again. The Alternative Energy Industry has to be developed and when one takes the billions upon billions to build a Wall Street Breeder Reactor, the USA could have more than enough funding for real changes to the source of it's electrical grid from alternative sources.
To say I was not impressed by this ? agenda ? is an understatement. I think I am ready to give up on Robert Stone now.
I hope the Canadian side of the Great Lakes will move forward without the permission of the USA to harness the wind energy available. Canada can sell their electricity to the USA and Michigan will finally have what it wants rather than waiting for a dysfunctional political agenda to continue to fail. Canada should not wait and simply get on with it.
Mr. Stone knows very well China produces most of the solar panels in the world within a communist country where there are no unions or OSHA or lacking human rights violations. It was last week Siemens has shut down it's solar production industry because China under sells their product. So, the point about solar causing industrial deaths amounts to 'consider the source,' because there are none affiliated with USA production.
Stone is attempting to reinvigorate the nuclear power plant as a Democratic answer to the Climate Crisis. His premise is that providing nuclear power will eliminate the need for hydraulic fracturing. He tries to dispel any myth that all nuclear plants are bad things. He states the "Breeder Reactor" is not the horrible machine everyone makes it out to be and would be the best bridge to sanity because of the corruption of the Political Right Wing and the petroleum industry. Basically, that is what this film is about. If the Democrats can sell nuclear power to the electorate we have half a chance at actually having a planet to live on.
He believes the Liberals of the USA have been stupid and allows negative ATTITUDES about nuclear power to cause a growth in other forms of more dangerous energy such as hydrofraking. Quite possibly. But, all I know is that when President Obama stated the EPA was going to regulate CO2 emissions, the following week an oil plant was demolished including four stakes.
Oil plant demolition in Port Everglades part of a nationwide trend to decommission inefficient, costly, and polluting facilities. (click here)
July 16, 2013
Anyone who happened to be scanning the skyline in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at 6:45 a.m. Tuesday witnessed a startling transformation. In the space of a minute, the four towering 350-foot-high, candy cane-striped smokestacks at Florida Power & Light's Port Everglades oil-burning power plant—a local landmark for the past half-century—abruptly imploded and crumbled into rubble....
Mr. Stone wants to roll back all the negativity about Breeder Reactors and there is plenty and make them the savior of us all. What Mr. Stone forgets is that is nothing short of passing on the problem to the next generation, it resolves nothing. There is so much money spent on energy plants in the USA, to make these enormous investments in the billions upon billions in nuclear energy knowing that new and better sources of completely benign energy won't be realized for another half century or more is waving the white flag of political defeatism.
If those monies are spent on nuclear plants the Great Lakes will never be harnessed.
...Fast-breeder technology (click here) is almost as old as nuclear power. But after almost two decades in the wilderness, it could be poised to take off. The U.S. corporation GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) is promoting a reactor design called the PRISM (for Power Reactor Innovative Small Modular) that its chief consulting engineer and fast-breeder guru, Eric Loewen, says is a safe and secure way to power the world using yesterday’s nuclear waste....
GE. Jeffery Immelt. No wonder.
Mr. Stone sat in a film festival venue about a mile maybe from a lake known as Lake Michigan that has some of the best wind maps for wind power in the nation making light of all the sins of the past of the nuclear energy with some SUIT from DC in the audience.
Do I have to state how completely ludicrous this is? The only reason Lake Michigan and the other Great Lakes aren't harnessed for their wind capacity is the petroleum industry while Snyder plays footsie with the Koch Brothers and their natural gas profiteering that will fund their political agenda for the next three generations.
Mr. Stone has given up on the fact Americans are capable of actually making good decisions and only sell out to what is lucrative for Wall Street to harness the USA Treasury for funding. Basically, Americans are the fools Wall Street believes them to be. Honestly, sir? You have given up on any integrity left in the American citizen? That is a very sorry state to find oneself in a relationship with the American public. I would think that especially sad for a filmmaker. A documentary no less.
Alternative energies do not include Breeder Nuclear Reactors. Alternative Energies have finally gotten a foothold and now they should take a back seat to this idiocy once again. The Alternative Energy Industry has to be developed and when one takes the billions upon billions to build a Wall Street Breeder Reactor, the USA could have more than enough funding for real changes to the source of it's electrical grid from alternative sources.
To say I was not impressed by this ? agenda ? is an understatement. I think I am ready to give up on Robert Stone now.
I hope the Canadian side of the Great Lakes will move forward without the permission of the USA to harness the wind energy available. Canada can sell their electricity to the USA and Michigan will finally have what it wants rather than waiting for a dysfunctional political agenda to continue to fail. Canada should not wait and simply get on with it.
