It's going to be interesting when the oil runs out in less than 50 years. We're going to be screwed because big oil shuts down most every other form of energy that dares to compete with them. I guess once they have milked us for every dime they can, to the last drop, they will stop fighting alternative energy sources, but by then it's going to be a calamitous issue.
and the thing is alternative energy sources cant just “take over” the supply demand. There isnt near enough alternative to sustain current usage. We need to start accelerating Alternative sources NOW to even have a chance at some sort of smooth transition. If we wait until the oil is out, it may never happen because it takes energy to create energy.
We need to build nuclear in someplace like the military ranges in Utah and build out from it a new nationwide power grid. A power grid that is not as wasteful and can recover more quickly from an emp attack. Even North Korea has the ability to hurt us with an emp attack. We can not build nuclear near populated areas. New plants can be privately built and owned but they should be far away from populated areas and preferably in areas protected by the military. Also new nuclear has to be pellet-based instead of rod.
Yeah, I'm good with all of that. Thoreum molten salt reactors don't even need a water source. Stick them out in the middle of nowhere and crank'em up. And a nationwide power grid of burried lines would be nice. Especially in residential and wooded areas...
Also, while we're installing the new power grid conduit we can run fiber in conduit to every door in America. Then let service providers compete for dollars based on service rather than artifical scarcity. And make snooping on data lines as illegal as snooping telephone lines. Suck on that with your cookies you advertising assholes.
The Hill has turned to crap ever since Krystall Ball and Saagar Enjeti left. Had to stop watching that.
Ask yourself how Germany closed down 12 of it's nuclear plants... Nuclear is a dying horrible technology. We keep talking about moving up on the Kardashev scale but want to move backwards attempting to do it. Solar power is where it's at. The entire NV desert should be solar panels. They are only going to get better and will create a need to invent better batteries. We need more energy from the Sun.
We don't have the battery technology and won't have it in time. Nuclear isn't horrible. It's incredibly clean and every bit as safe as solar and wind. Our common experience with nuclear is with 60 year old technology which was designed to make use of weapons grade plutonium. We have so much better and safer technology it's insane. Nuclear waste can be nearly inert in comparison to the old technology we've been using for nearly a century.
Meh. I don't believe that at all. Nuclear isn't clean at all. The radioactive waste that we don't have a way of eliminating literally kills us... Again, look at Germany shutting down plants and going to solar. Insurance companies don't even insure Nuclear plants, we do...
