With Nuclear Reactor Offline, Japan's TEPCO Doubles April Oil Purchases YOY - Reuters

[hatrack]

TOKYO, May 15 (Reuters) - Japan's biggest utility, Tokyo
Electric Power Co (9501.T: Quote, Profile, Research) more than doubled its purchases of
crude oil and fuel oil in April from a year earlier, it said on
Thursday.

This reflects the need for the company to burn more oil
after the extended shutdown of its nuclear power plant.

TEPCO said its fuel oil purchases jumped to 651,000
kilolitres (around 4.1 million barrels) in April from 303,000 kl
a year earlier.

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant has been shut
indefinitely since an earthquake in July last year, prompting
TEPCO to offset the power loss by working its thermal plants
harder and buying electricity from other firms.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUST29795820080515?rpc=401&

[Zachstar]

1. Will this knock some sence into some here now?

When nuke plants online oil and coal use go up by MASSIVE amounts! Which hurts everyone and the environment.

[jpak]

4. Replace them with renewables and problem solved

n/t

[NNadir]

5. If you don't know what you're talking about, make stuff up. Nuclear plants are base load.

There are ZERO reenwable energy plants on this planet that operate with the same capacity utilization of nuclear plants.

I note that after you were done cheering for the earthquake in Japan, you whispered not a peep about the dangerous fossil fuel waste deaths that resulted from the earthquake - just as I predicted.

Every nuclear plant on earth that has ever been shut and replaced by something other than nuclear energy has been replaced by dangerous fossil fuels.

YOU. COULDN'T. CARE. LESS.

Oh, and by the way, the number of people killed because of the damage to the nuclear plant was ZERO.

The number of people who will die because the nuclear plant is shut is NOT ZERO.

[jpak]

8. That's just plain stupid

The Schatz Energy Hydrogen-PV facility at Humboldt State University operated 24/7/365 for *years* without human intervention...

http://www.schatzlab.org/generationcenter.html

There are ZERO nuclear plants that can match that performance.

Repeat - ZERO

Same for the Chewonki H2/PV facility in Maine...

http://www.chewonkih2.org/

and New Jersey...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0315/p12s01-sten.html

There are two wind-hydrogen faculties that produce power 24/7/365

Utsira Island, Norway

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2005/11/hydro_to_extend.html

and the Xcel facility at NREL

http://www.physorg.com/news87494382.html

and commercial wind/hydrogen projects are under development...worldwide

http://www.wind-hydrogen.com/

There are over 1000 off-grid solar homes here in Maine that produce power and hot water 24/7 for without backup - generator backup is required only for a *few* days each year - as annual refueling takes *weeks* each year to complete, *NO* nuclear facility can match that performance.

:rofl:

[Zachstar]

7. You paying for them?

The many billions in batteries and enough wind and solar panels to cover many miles to replace ONE nuke plant?

You got that kind of money?

[GliderGuider]

2. Bangladesh moves from NG to coal

and Tokyo moves from nuclear to oil. Anyone else notice a pattern here?

Gee, why aren't these people just using wind turbines and solar panels instead? They must be stupid.

[diane in sf]

3. Reactors in such fault-ridden terrain are not the most functional idea. Hopefully

they can quickly build wind, solar and tidal power sources and get their fossil fuel consumption back down.

[Zachstar]

6. No they can't

Don't make crap up.

[losthills]

9. This just illustrates the folly of depending on nuclear power.

[GliderGuider]

10. Extend that thought just a bit further

This demonstrates the folly of depending on any exosomatic power sources whatsoever. At least if you're talking about the long-term sustainability of our species (and the others that share our ecosphere). Of course, that's not really possible if you want to have cities and telephones and blue jeans and internet pron.

[Zachstar]

11. Ok cool so lets wipe Nucs off the history book and by now the Climate has collapsed.

That will help things a great deal eh?