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A Nuclear Submariner Challenges a Pro-Nuclear Film  NYT, By ANDREW C. REVKIN, 16 Aug 13 Russell Long San francisco The National Renewable Energy Lab’s study isn’t wishful thinking — it is based on sound science and is backed up by a Blue Ribbon advisory board from many of the U.S.’s top institutions including MIT.

The biggest problem is that utilities around the nation fight like the devil to prevent intrusion onto their turf by renewable providers. One of their methods has been to craft regulatory prohibitions, with the help of state elected officials, against energy entering their states from other areas (especially “green electrons”). Thus, the balkanization of the grid is at it’s core a turf battle to protect corporate profits.

Pandora’s Promise sets up straw man arguments and then knocks them over, but it is all smoke and mirrors. There should be no doubt that the U.S. could wean itself off of nuclear and fossil fuels if obstructionist utilities and politicians would simply get out of the way. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/a-nuclear-submariner-challenges-a-pro-nuclear-film/?