YES: nuclear, wind, solar, tide, geothermal, hydroelectric
NO: oil, gas, coal
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Where do you stand on the use of nuclear power and current fuels, alternate fuels, and consequences?
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#1 by billrussell42 at March 31st, 2010
YES: nuclear, wind, solar, tide, geothermal, hydroelectric
NO: oil, gas, coal
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#2 by Yakman at April 1st, 2010
Nuclear power offers a clean and long term sustainable power source we have only begun to tap. We will need to continue to use current fossil fuels for several decades at ever increasing costs making other sources look more economical. Alternate fuels including wind, solar, hydro. tidal, will also be more economical and play a bigger role but are limited by location, and time of dat and/or conditions. In our lifetime we will need all three sources.
As to consequences, the use of any of these fuels comes with societal, health, and environmental consequences. Proponents of one kind will point to the defects of another. None are perfect and all have monumental consequences to ourselves. That includes the consequences of foregoing the use of one kind of fuel and burdening the society and environment with fewer options and higher costs and hence limited availability to the poor and the developing countries that need inexpensive energy to progress.
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