Dear Senator,
I've been concerned about a potential negative backlash toward nuclear energy since the earthquake/tsunami in Japan.
Over the past few decades there has obviously been a fear of nuclear catastrophe that stagnated growth in the industry, but little allowance has been given for improved safe and reliable technologies that lie in alternate forms of nuclear energy, besides nuclear-arms fueling bearing Uranium reactors. It's a shame that despite the huge concern toward greenification of energy (to include production, consumption and transportation) that there has been little emphasis on creating a new cadre of modern nuclear power plants.
Is there any legislation being written on this issue? Is it actually being moved through subcommittees?
It seems that politics and industry are distracted by ineffective green solutions:
- Hybrid cars that perform terribly, are expensive and negligibly improve efficiency. It ultimately costs more energy to build a new, efficient car than to maintain an aging, less efficient car. I'll drive my car until it dies.
- Renewable energy that's sporadic at best, as well as being prohibitively expensive to build and maintain. Not to mention how much room they take up.
- Consumer appliances whose prices increase exponentially with efficiency and lack performance.
There are technologies out there to improve energy consumption for every facet of industry, but most are diluted or ignored. I'd like to see focus being put on technologies that will have a profound and last effect on the world.
Even Richard Nixon envisioned that we'd have energy independence thru nuclear energy. There were some great studies done in the 1960's that place uranium reactors as a stopgap form of energy production that will lead way to more advanced and intrinsically safer forms. Instead, we got thousands of nuclear weapons and a stunted progress.
Don't let my address fool you - I'm registered as a California resident, but am stationed in Colorado at Buckley AFB.
Please let me know what is being done.
Thank you!
Eric S. Leyva, SrA, USAF
I've been concerned about a potential negative backlash toward nuclear energy since the earthquake/tsunami in Japan.
Over the past few decades there has obviously been a fear of nuclear catastrophe that stagnated growth in the industry, but little allowance has been given for improved safe and reliable technologies that lie in alternate forms of nuclear energy, besides nuclear-arms fueling bearing Uranium reactors. It's a shame that despite the huge concern toward greenification of energy (to include production, consumption and transportation) that there has been little emphasis on creating a new cadre of modern nuclear power plants.
Is there any legislation being written on this issue? Is it actually being moved through subcommittees?
It seems that politics and industry are distracted by ineffective green solutions:
- Hybrid cars that perform terribly, are expensive and negligibly improve efficiency. It ultimately costs more energy to build a new, efficient car than to maintain an aging, less efficient car. I'll drive my car until it dies.
- Renewable energy that's sporadic at best, as well as being prohibitively expensive to build and maintain. Not to mention how much room they take up.
- Consumer appliances whose prices increase exponentially with efficiency and lack performance.
There are technologies out there to improve energy consumption for every facet of industry, but most are diluted or ignored. I'd like to see focus being put on technologies that will have a profound and last effect on the world.
Even Richard Nixon envisioned that we'd have energy independence thru nuclear energy. There were some great studies done in the 1960's that place uranium reactors as a stopgap form of energy production that will lead way to more advanced and intrinsically safer forms. Instead, we got thousands of nuclear weapons and a stunted progress.
Don't let my address fool you - I'm registered as a California resident, but am stationed in Colorado at Buckley AFB.
Please let me know what is being done.
Thank you!
Eric S. Leyva, SrA, USAF
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