{"id":722,"date":"2009-07-22T08:38:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T12:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=722"},"modified":"2009-07-22T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T12:38:12","slug":"a-smart-step-toward-american-energy-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/energy\/a-smart-step-toward-american-energy-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"A smart step toward American energy independence."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/news\/2009\/jul\/20\/tva-moves-toward-2012-startup-of-watts-bar-ii\/\">The Tennessee Valley Authority<\/a> is bringing a new Nuclear Reactor on line, on schedule and on budget, in order to provide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0307385876\/eclipsswebwarren\">clean, &#8220;carbon free&#8221;, electricity<\/a> in useful quanties, to their customers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eclipseweb.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/greens-supporting-more-nuclear-power.html\">Clean and safe nuclear power is supported as the &#8220;green option&#8221; by serious leaders of the environmental movement, including Gaia theorist James Lovelock, Greenpeace cofounder Patrick Moore, and Britain&#8217;s Bishop Hugh Montefiore, a longtime board member of Friends of the Earth.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are uneducated watermelon groups opposing this step toward clean, American engergy indepence, including the obviously confused &#8220;Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennessee Valley Authority is bringing a new Nuclear Reactor on line, on schedule and on budget, in order to provide clean, &#8220;carbon free&#8221;, electricity in useful quanties, to their customers. Clean and safe nuclear power is supported as the &#8220;green option&#8221; by serious leaders of the environmental movement, including Gaia theorist James Lovelock, Greenpeace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,8,17],"tags":[210,300,301,571,621],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-environment","category-nuclear-power-energy","tag-clean-energy","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-nuclear-power","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-bE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}