Look, I am as supportive of massive investment in nuclear and other systems as you are. Even if we weren't running out of oil, it's too important a resource for many other things just to burn as fuel.
If there is a major economic collapse because we run low on cheap energy, don't forget who killed the nuclear industry in America, and is still doing its damnedest to kill it everywhere else. If corporations can be held liable for harming people, so can environmentalists.
The free market isn't perfect. Just better than the alternatives.
How were laborers doing in non-capitalist nations at the turn of the 20th century?
BTW, what are you using for sources? Watch them carefully. There's a hell of a lot of political baggage riding on this controversy.
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- Energy projections, PBR reactors, transition times
- Old Chestnuts and New Times
- And then there's this.
- Fracing.
- Talk about synchronicity- anyopne catch the daily show today? (n/t)
- There is also always Methane Hydrates
- Wrong! You wrote: "Nuclear is the ONLY possible scalable technology out there"
- (1) We have been through all of this before
- OK. We shall see what is the bigger producer of electric power in 2025.
- Are there any Sea Solar plants up and running yet? (n/t)
- Okay, sounds fine to me.
- Go for it!
- Singing my song
- The Goddamn Luddites
- Vertebrate mass - think first
- The secret trick word is "vertebrates."
- OK. We shall see what is the bigger producer of electric power in 2025.
- (1) We have been through all of this before
- This is a thread that would benefit from Nick Hoffman
- You seem to write off Oil Sands pretty quickly
- Please enlighten me
- Peaked, or close to it,
- re: Energy projections
- Problem with you is you don't listen
- Renewable Alternatives To Oil Viable At $60/barrel
- the 'running out for many many years' myth