Its time again for nuclear.

John W. Schoen of MSNBC asks Does Nuclear Power Make Financial Sense? While nuclear power has been having a sort of mini-boom the last year or so, no substantial progress has really been made, at this point everyone is still saying that "maybe if things work out" it could make a come back. The article throws out the date 2012 or 2014 before we optimistically could have a new plant built.

As a big fan of the environment, this infuriates me. We talk and talk and talk about global warming, then we say "Hey, lets build 150 coal plants!" This is not one state or area of the country either, its everywhere. Being realistic, the only alternative for these coal plants is nuclear (although geothermal holds future promise), but we are still caught up in the non-global-warming world hysteria against nuclear.

I can not think of one single thing worse from a global warming perspective than a new coal plant going in, we complain about Hummers and other gas guzzlers, but the whole fleet probably doesn't emit as much CO2 as a coal plant, and the coal plant will probably outlast them all. Heck, even in Texas they are questioning the wisdom of coal plants.

Lets rethink the coal plants and work to move up the time table and make nuclear a viable option again.