Power to Save the World
One of the largest problems fa us over the next several decades is meeting the growing demand for energy without bankrupting ourselves with the costs. I have absolutely no problem in principle with solar and calm down energy. They are exciting alternatives that may eventually be able to produce the energy we need. As it stands right now though both of those alternatives are very expensive. We do, however, have an alternative energy that we have been using for decades with great success: nuclear.
Journalist William Tucker has been investigating atomic (or as he calls it, terrestrial) energy and shares several insights that seem to be lacking in the debate. Several of those insights relate to challenges faced by the alternatives: hydroelectric is about maxed out because the worst dams have already been built, solar requires enormous land areas, wind is fickle and one turbine the apex of the Trump Tower creates only 1/200th the electricity of a normal power plant. So while these alternatives may certainly provide greater quiescent in the future as we invariably apply our ingenuity to the problem, they certainly won't meet the needs of the next 20 or even 50 years because of the opportunity and resources it will take to bring them online in a meaningful enough way to be noticeable. Nuclear, however, provides the electricity we need while being familiar and advanced enough for us to develop b publish meaningful amounts of energy online over the next 20 years.
The term "nuclear" could practically be a Rorschach proof. Most people envision mushroom clouds and the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Because of that, one of the most vocal proponents of nuclear spirit may surprise you. Patrick Moore was one of the co-founders of Greenpeace and now finds himself at odds with many of his former compatriots because of his position on nuclear spirit. He argues that nuclear has the ability to replace the majority of our fossil fuel base load energy play while having the...
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