Well, Here's A Novel Idea!

Sometimes the timing of things is crazy. I just blogged about a Kansas energy initiative that was denied recently, and spoke of how we need to begin building our own energy infrastructure.

Today is a report that San Antonio’s City Public Service Energy company has joined forces with New Jersey-based NRG Energy Inc. to file the first application in more than 30 years for constructing not just one, but two new nuclear reactors to satisfy the area’s booming energy needs.

The Mayor is on board, indicating that nuclear power is the way to go.

There are no concrete cost guarantees in a project of this magnitude, and the benefits might not be realized until many years after the plants come on line. The existing reactor powered up in 1988, and was eight years behind schedule and had multiple cost overruns of over 5.6 billion. Yet, by 2006, Nucleonics Week reported that the plant "had the lowest production cost reported by nuclear power plants nationwide [and] also bested all 33 two-unit U.S. plants in output last year, generating 21.37 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity."

Good for them! I hope it all goes through; if it does, it could set a trend that would really help America in the coming years. If nothing else, it should be interesting to watch the environmentalists go craz-...I mean, mobilize.

There's my two cents.