“Clean Energy” – sound good to you?  FPL which has spent billions of dollars on nuclear power and plans to spend billions more, prefers that the State of Florida have a “clean” standard, rather than a “renewable” one as it seeks to limit greenhouse gasses. FPL likes the word clean because nuclear is not renewable.  Renewable energy sources are solar and wind, for example. Even calling nuclear clean is a subject of much debate. I’m not clear on how something that produces toxic waste with a life span of millions of years can be called clean. Because nuclear energy production emits no greenhouse gasses it is less dirty than other sources perhaps, but clean?  Well, the State’s Public Service Commission was unable to decide what green is so now the debate goes to the legislature. Palm Beach Post article.

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