Spreading the Menlo Spark

I hope the group will be advocating for bringing a nuclear power plant to Menlo Park, because that's what it will take to make a meaningful difference.

Actually, Joe, they should build a nuclear power plant on your property.

If you want nuclear power in the area, then YOU should bear the responsibility for it.

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This is all about control! Does Ms Carlson not think for a minute that this group would not recommend any company that contributed to their group either financially or otherwise that they would not recommend that company. Menlo Park hired a radical environmentalist to manage the city now he and his friends seek to circumvent the people of the city.

I'm sure these people mean well.

I think the following comment from Nicholas Nassim Taleb (author of "The Black Swan" and "Fooled by Randomness") is applicable here:

"The worst damage has been caused by competent people trying to do good; the best improvements have been brought by incompetent ones not trying to do good."

"bringing a nuclear power plant to Menlo Park"

Run by whom?

PG&E? You gotta be kidding, right? The "can't run a gas pipeline without explosions" peeps, running a nuke on Middlefield!

Completely against the free market, and can never be profitable. A nuke in MP could never be insured in the free market.

Nuclear is far too expensive.

A dollar towards a solar panel pays for itself faster than a dollar put into nukes. Add wind, steam, hydro, and gas, and we're good.

Build clean, green infrastructure and it will pay for itself, without radioactive waste dumps.

I think they are onto something by working at educating the public without having financial coercion to create a profit generating message. The good choices will become clear. Thank you for your efforts Mr. DeCardy and Mitch Slomiak and Diane Bailey.

How do they expect to literally reduce the greenhouse gas levels in our town when Menlo Park officials keep approving major projects that have Environmental Impact Reports that conclude there will be worse environmental impacts? Nearly 2 million square feet of offices are in the approved pipeline.

This organization feels very corporate, top-down, and astroturfy.

I'm not clear that they're doing anything other local non-profit organizations aren't doing already.

I think the idea is to create a proof of concept that other cities can learn from. This is an outstanding, leading-edge, worthy endeavor. If any city can achieve this, it's Menlo Park (well, ok, or maybe Palo Alto). This nonprofit is legit, with a noble purpose. Read the report! Then get on board and let's make this happen.

Way to go. Don't let the naysayers slow this group down. It's exciting to see such a cutting edge approach in our community.

Yes let's all change the world from our safe comfortable vantage point here in menlo park Not too much arrogance or hypocrisy on display. Good for you Jan in Sharon heights! You go girl! Why of course we in Menlo Park have the solutions that other less enlightened cities in the world can learn from. Except of course Palo Alto. Let's all be carbon neutral!