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Nuclear energy is the wrong way to go. Uranium faces the same problem oil does, all minerals and fossil fuels do, all the easily accessable high quality stuff is long gone with the remainder of ever lower quality and harder to extract PLUS as oil runs out, followed shortly by natural gas, the rest of the world *cough france cough* will be willing to go to the mattresses for their share of what's left. There is only ONE sane way to go. Clean, limitless renewable energy supplies. Solar, wind, gravity and geothermal. Gravity covers hydro-electric and tidal, wind covers wind turbine and wave energy extraction technologie s. Then there is that problem with storing nuclear wastes. Shutting down the funding for yucca mountain i do not understand. The nuclear waste is far far bettr off there than scattered around the country near major metropolitan areas and susceptable to a variety of natural disasters. I don't know what the hell Obama is smoking on tht one. Adding more nuclear plants would just add to that already critical and potentially catastrophic problem.

Those must become our PRIMARY energy sources ASAP. Energy storage technologies SHOULD have a hundred billion all to itself, as that is the KEY technology which can leverage the renewables to cover all needs now met by gasoline and diesel engines.



   

by spigzone on 02/28/2009 09:45:40 PM EST

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