Smith: Nuclear power provides ‘clean energy future’

The four presumably learned professors who wrote “Wind farms, underwater grid could revolutionize East Coast" did not address wind energy’s costly challenge: that of reliability. While an East Coast-wide wind-powered grid would increase the likelihood that the wind is usually blowing somewhere along the capture footprint, that is irrelevant since the grid is designed to power tens of millions of homes that still need consistent electricity flow at the flip of a switch.

Until battery storage technology on a massive scale is invented, any wind power project will need duplicative oil/coal/natural gas backups to ensure that we masses can consume energy when we need it.

It is cost-prohibitive to undertake what they propose until capture and storage technologies are devised.

The obvious answer is nuclear power deployment. Nuclear power provides the clean energy future that is the objective of the authors, with the added and necessary benefit of continuous availability.

Wayne Smith

Middletown

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