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>It's really not a given that we must use high levels of electricity to maintain a high quality of life this is just an intellectual dishonest excuse to ignore

• DoreenMichele 7y ago
  More like first-hand testimony from someone who gave up their car more than a decade ago while working a corporate job. I'm an environmental studies major whose dream job would be urban planning or similar. I've been looking for real solutions to such problems for a lot of years. One conclusion I've drawn is that passive solar really needs a lot more attention than it gets. It's an elegant solution with no real downside. Nuclear has a couple of big downsides. 1. When things go wrong, it's really bad, a la Chernobyl. 2. Even if nothing goes wrong, safely storing the spent fuel is a significant issue and goes on "forevy." Everyone knows about those two issues. It's precisely why nuclear is controversial. It's also possible for someone to be pro nuclear power and also pro conservation. There is no need to set this up as an either-or thing. People could be pro passive solar while being pro nuclear power. I'm not pro nuclear power. I'm also not strongly against it. I'm just trying to let people know that passive solar exists and can play a role in solving these issues.