Nuclear Energy
Anyone who knows me knows that I think nuclear energy is the cleanest, safest, and most long term viable energy technology we currently know how to use. But I finally found someone who published my thoughts exactly, and they didn't even have to talk to me. William Tucker, a journalist at Hillsdale College wrote an article about the various forms of energy generation we use and why nuclear is the best.
posted by Anthony Barney @ 2/27/2008 03:20:00 PM
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Good article. I was surprised that 20% of power comes from nuclear power. Sheesh, if we're fine with 20%, we oughta be fine with 80%. Less pollution, less foreign dependence.
But you're overlooking one thing: many people don't want this issue to be solved.
Critics of religion like to cite psychologists and anthropologists who say that humans are naturally pre-disposed to be religious, that if left unattended, they'll create things to worship and things to fear. These critics forget that they are also humans and, by their own argument, have the same tendency.
It seems that humans also have an innate need for a superhuman enemy - something that's bigger than us all. Satan's falling out of vogue left this position open. The USSR and the threat of a nuclear holocaust held the role briefly until 1989. But the Soviet Union fell, and people no longer had a universal enemy to justify their angst. Global warming entered the scene, and once again, people had a common enemy against whom they could rally and do daily battle.
Solving 'global warming' would be akin to dispelling Satan from a Christian's vocabulary or knocking a ship's compass into the sea.
Don't advocate nuclear energy just yet. Let the golden calf stay just a little longer. . .
You are absolutely right. The nuclear waste problem that everyone is so bent about is a fabrication of some party disinterested in progress. Even if we just bury the waste 2 miles below ground in Nevada with no containment, the actual change to local radiation naturally produced by the earth would be undetectable by our most sensitive instruments. Furthermore, putting it all on a rocket headed for the sun would be cheaper than our current disposal system, and the sun is very big. Sure I guess that is a lot like dumping sewage into the ocean, but below a certain level, the ocean can manage it. And the level of nuclear waste rockets that the sun can handle, is very very high.
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