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> 1. Climate Change Unless the group think around nuclear power changes climate change doesnt stand a chance in hell. EDIT: I would be interested hearing from

> 1. Climate Change Unless the group think around nuclear power changes climate change doesnt stand a chance in hell. EDIT: I would be interested hearing from peoples points of view for those who are downvoting.

tim333 12y ago
There are other CO2 free options apart from nuclear. If you believe solar installation is increasing exponentially a la Kurzweil then we'll soon have enough solar http://bigthink.com/think-tank/ray-kurzweil-solar-will-power-the-world-in-16-years http://bigthink.com/think-tank/ray-kurzweil-solar-will-power... You can argue solar / wind is already cheaper and the differential is only going to grow http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/26/wind-solar-can-generate-electricity-half-cost-nuclear/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/26/wind-solar-can-generate-... Fair enough at the moment wind/solar don't work all the time but they are working on that. The cleantechnia article for example looks at natural gas powered generation for backup and we may get better at storage tech, who knows?
- growupkids 12y ago
  Doesnt use of natural gas have an adverse impact on climate change?
  - twoodfin 12y ago
    Not if it's replacing coal.
- jeremyt 12y ago
  According to two very smart PhD engineers who work for Google and were assigned to look into this problem, there is no way to get there with wind and solar. http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/what-it-would-really-take-to-reverse-climate-change http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/what-it-would-rea...
  - ps4fanboy 12y ago
    It appears the people against nuclear power use a lot of "ifs" and "whens", nuclear is here now its cheap and its very clean.
happyscrappy 12y ago
We could easily ditch nuclear altogether if we could find an efficient way to store power.
- ps4fanboy 12y ago
  If