Milano! Che Bello!

[applez]

The most important part of the trip first:A truly lovely time reconnecting with childhood friends and family-friends I haven't seen in 18 years! Sharing old memories with Francesco and Giovanni Riva, refreshing others (as Franz puts it, his brother has "an elephant's memory" - his memories of details was shocking!), and picking up where we had left

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Power

[gioogle]

As long as the cars are powered by plutonium, no harm there... it is almost very difficult to build a plutonium-based nuclear bomb without proper technology (it is tied to how plutonium nuclei interact with each other at short distances).
As history demonstrates time and again, no uranium enrichment, no one is upset ... :-)))
There is the small matter of said technology being available in the ex-soviet countries where it is sold cheaply, but it is another matter...
I do not believe we will ever manage to pair nuclear power usage with nuclear power disarmament - the two things are really to closely intertwined. It is necessary people understand that conflicts cannot be solved through force, and that is a long process.
Speaking seriously, I agree with you on nuclear power... 1000000%. It is one of the energy sources that I feel will play a great role in the future. The problem is that, for nuclear power to be safe and clean we must start from the nuclear power that we have now which has some little problems. However, this does not sit well with a lot of short-sighted people - it is probably the price we must pay to have clean energy in the future! Also research needs to be done and that costs money, which politicians are not going to spend if they aren't sure they are getting it back in the short term. Seeing how nuclear power isn't generally very popular with people who make the decisions because of costs, danger, environmental problems,we need to hope that enlightened individuals continue to explore this path (with care, of course).
It is strange how we always seem to be lacking energy as there is so much power in an atom, and so much energy is received by Earth from the sun every day - the problem that we are facing is more how to harness this energy (which is generally also very clean). Should we effectively tap into these almost unlimited supplies, it should be easy to use this energy for whatever is needed, including hydrogen production.

We'll see what the future brings us!

Re: Power

[applez]

Hmm...given how toxic plutonium is, I'd rather we weren't in the business of mass producing it for mobile applications like that. ;-)

Re: Power

[gioogle]

It was a devious plan to poison all the motorists and more... but you saw right through it!!!! :-))
Need to devise a more cunning plot!