Friday, October 23, 2009

Why Solar, Wind and Hydro Power Won't Work and Nuclear Will

This is maybe the best explanation I have seen yet for why nuclear power is our best bet to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels.  Careful now, it involves some actual science, but is absolutely understandable by anyone with a high school education, or at least what a high school education used to be.

We can stop building the windmill farms now.  Maybe keep building solar, but it is only part of the solution at best.  And people will have to let go of some highly irrational fears over nuclear energy.  By the way, I live within an hour of a nuclear power facility and it is clean as a whistle.  A nuclear-powered whistle.

And "Nuclear Powered Whistle" is a good name for a band.

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