Give Me Nukes!

"Carbon-free fairies do not magically drop windmills onto moutaintops," said Jack Spencer of the Heritage Foundation in an October 29, 2007 commentary. "For example, 2 million tons of concrete, about double what a nuclear plant requires, must be produced and delivered to anchor enough windmills to match one nuclear plant's energy production. Just producing this concrete emits the CO2 equivalent of flying a Boeing 747 from New York to London 450 times."