New incentives for cab drivers.
I think that giving cab drivers incentives to get hybrid or cleaner fueled cars is a really good idea especially for a city such as New York where many people take cabs. Since cabs are literally driving the entire day I think this is a good start to help reduce pollution from transportation. Before reading the article I actually hadn't thought about the idea of regulating and giving incentives to the cab industry. I hope that if the New York incentives go through that maybe the government will realize the great potential these incentives have on reducing emissions and would start to create a national plan. Judging by the article though I feel like there is a going to be a lot of resistance to the changes so I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Where to put nuclear waste?
Yucca Mountain
I find it surprising that now after so much money has been spent on the Yucca Mountain project that the government wants to simply abandon it and abandon it with no alternatives. I don't find this decision very fair at all to nuclear power plants who have been waiting for years to finally have somewhere to put their waste. I feel it was very ignorant of the original government staff who selected the spot without doing any tests on it before selecting Yucca Mountain. You would think that for something as a big a deal as nuclear waste they would have at least sent a few scientists to observe the mountain. That part of the article really shocked me. I have to agree with the article in that if the Yucca Mountain plan is abandoned and no alternative found then we should not build anymore nuclear reactors and perhaps even stop using the ones we have. At this point it seems as though we may never find a place to store nuclear waste.
I find it surprising that now after so much money has been spent on the Yucca Mountain project that the government wants to simply abandon it and abandon it with no alternatives. I don't find this decision very fair at all to nuclear power plants who have been waiting for years to finally have somewhere to put their waste. I feel it was very ignorant of the original government staff who selected the spot without doing any tests on it before selecting Yucca Mountain. You would think that for something as a big a deal as nuclear waste they would have at least sent a few scientists to observe the mountain. That part of the article really shocked me. I have to agree with the article in that if the Yucca Mountain plan is abandoned and no alternative found then we should not build anymore nuclear reactors and perhaps even stop using the ones we have. At this point it seems as though we may never find a place to store nuclear waste.
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