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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by Crito on Thursday January 30, 2014 @04:04PM (#7153349)
Arguing against nuclear is de facto arguing for coal. Current options for renewable baseload power generation are limited. This will with any luck change sometime in the future, but in the present less nuclear means more coal.

Using less power is not a realistic proposal. You should not expect that to be taken seriously.

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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by sp332 on Thursday January 30, 2014 @04:58PM (#7153606)
Actually, thanks partly to more-efficient tech and mostly to the economy, America's energy usage has been lower in the past few years.
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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by Crito on Thursday January 30, 2014 @05:08PM (#7153675)
Do you have a source for that? Wolfram Alpha shows a slight dip corresponding with the recession, and the data cuts off at 2010, but the overall trend seems pretty damming: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=us+power+usage
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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by sp332 on Thursday January 30, 2014 @05:21PM (#7153740)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#Co... shows residential and commercial electricity usage declining in 2000 but doesn't seem to have later data.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2013/... says homes are down to using less energy in 2013 than anytime since the early 2000's. Here's a graph of energy use over time http://nation.time.com/2013/10/24/interactive-see-how-americ...

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