danno

Solving the Energy Problem Without Nuclear

What planet have you been living on? Wake up and smell the coffee (or the emissions)!

The large Asian countries are commissioning a few utility-scale coal-fired plants PER WEEK. (not to mention disastrous mega projects like 3 Gorges). If this trajectory goes on for the next decade (as China, India, Vietnam, Korea, Indonesia currently plan), then it's all over in terms of the global warming end-game. There is NO energy source which can satisfy that demand. Of course, you would probably like to have millions die from respiratory illness, mercury poisoning, mining accidents, and global warming. Gee the French don't seem to have too many safety problems with nuclear. Moreover, why the heck does waste have to be stored safely for 100,000 years? That's idiotic. At the rate we're going we won't even have 2 centuries left. Finally, if you don't think that we can develop the technology to safely eliminate the waste in the next 100 years, let alone the next 1000 years, you have no faith in science. We were basically in the dark ages in the year 1000 give or take a century or two (O.K. my mastery of history dates sucks).

Amory is a very smart guy, but only about 1 of 50 of his ideas are worth uttering in public or escaping his ivory tower. The only problem is one can never tell when the brilliant one is coming so you have to put up with a lot of, shall we say, less than impressive thoughts.