Reply #30: That "tripe" is the US Dept of Energy annual state by state profiles. [View All]

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One of their mandates from congress is to track and record energy usage, consumption, generation, imports, etc.

Notice the letters "D", "O", and "E" along with the ".GOV" in the tripe url
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/st_profiles/sept05ok.xls

The reality is Oklamahoma generates 92% of electricity by fossil fuels FAR higher than the national average of 69% and no amount of wishful thinking is going to change that.

OK consumers 78 billion kWh of electricity. That single nuclear plant (2 reactors) would have provided 16 billion kWh or roughly 20% of the state's electrical consumption. While 72% fossil fuel use isn't good it is a help of a lot better than 92%.

Don't worry the situation is "improving". A decade ago 93.5% of electricity in OK was fossil fuels, today it is "only" 92%.
So fossil fuel share has gone down a whole 1.5%. Maybe in another four of five decades years it will go down enough to offset that reactor you helped prevent. Of course even then you can't "undo" the billions of tons of CO2 released every year for decades.