Reply #9: notice I said 'uranium-fueled', plus shut them in a reasonable manner, I am not coming from 'green' [View All]

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perspective on this. I am coming from a radiation cancer plague perspective that will kill at bare minimum 200,000 to 400,000 people (and IMHO many many more as these reactors will indeed continue to get worse and worse).

The next two years will be one of many more massive earthquakes due to solar maximum activity, etc. One Fukushima is bad enough, what if there are 1 or 2 more? I do not like taking this gamble over the next decade with millions of lives in the potential balance.

When you factor in a true accounting of Chernobyl-caused deaths (close to 1 million so far, based on hundreds of thousands of pages from recently translated Russian studies) uranium-nuclear power is just not safe. We can agree to disagree, but on this point I shall never yield my convictions.

On top of all this I never even touched upon the storage issues of spent fuel.
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Btw, for a good report on the true potential of alternative energy and how IT CAN replace what we have now, see this:


http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/JDEnPolicyPt1.pdf

Providing all global energy with wind,water,and solar powr,PartI:

Technologies,energy resources,quantities and areas of infrastructure,and materials

Mark Z.Jacobson a,n, Mark A.Delucchi b,1
a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University,Stanford,CA 94305-4020,USA
b Institute of Transportation Studies,University of California at Davis,Davis,CA 95616,USA


Wind, water and solar (WWS) power could meet all new global energy demands by 2030 and could replace pre-existing energy sources by 2050 at a similar cost to current carbon-based fuels, suggests a two-part study.

The researchers investigated the material, technical and economic feasibility of satisfying the world's energy needs using 100% WWS. Based on a projected global need of 11.5 trillion watts of end use WWS power in 2030, supply from WWS could exceed demand by more than an order of magnitude, the study suggests. The authors estimate roughly 84% of energy needs in 2030 could be supplied from around 4 million 5-MW wind turbines and 90,000 300-MW solar power plants, with the remaining 16% coming from solar photovoltaic rooftop systems, geothermal, tidal, wave and hydroelectric sources.

Affordable, rapid transition to large-scale, perpetual and reliable energy requires significant expansion of transmission infrastructure, targeted economic policies, including a shift in subsidies from fossil fuels to WWS systems to encourage adoption, combined with significant social and political effort, say the authors