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I wonder how difficult it would be leapfrog oil and go straight to nuclear power.

• TeMPOraL 7y ago
  If any necessary and non-substitutable material or equipment is based on petroleum chemistry, then we won't be able to do that. I'd love some nuclear engineering experts to chime in on it here; my uneducated guess is that it's extremely unlikely that there isn't a hard petroleum dependency somewhere in there.
  • rdtwo 7y ago
    Just think of all the protective equipment. What do you think it’s made of?
• jpindar 7y ago
  I think it would be a lot easier to go with internal combustion of ethanol and biodiesel (and possibly wood gas) first.
• Animats 7y ago
  The coal-powered steam locomotive era and the nuclear power era overlap. We almost did go from coal to nuclear. Especially in the UK, which had little domestic oil or gas in the 1950s.