[quote=Arraya]Nuclear is not long term thinking.[/quote]
Yeah I guess I agree. Anything based on extracting finite material from the planet is not sustainable “long term”. On the other hand, you can do a lot, for a long time, with suboptimal solutions. Look at the internal combustion engine. Or HTTP for that matter. Really kind of a hack, but though it is suboptimal, it is good enough, and pervasive. Nuclear could be that way for what 100 years? 200? Still, I agree not forever.
[quote=Arraya]With wind, solar and tidal we could power the world today.
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Are you sure about that? I’m not. I support doing as much of all of those things as we can. I’m not sure that it would be enough, but sheesh, even if their sum covered say 40% of our needs… great!
Might hundreds of square miles solid of highly efficient solar panels in unrelentingly sunny areas get the job done? Maybe. I’m all for trying.
Where do I vote for that?
I’d rather pay for that than health care for people who don’t take care of themselves.
