Nukes, geopolitics and global warming

[tevarin]

I saw this post on andrewsullivan.com and thought it was pretty good:

"Any real solution to our climate problems will surely involve building more nuclear power plants - and we should be doing more of that ourselves as well as encouraging many developing countries to do the same. But the knowledge behind nuclear reactors is very hard to insulate

Comments

[subjectivity]

I vote for your last idea as being the most practical and not even that unlikely. But not necessarily just solar. There are other power sources too (wind, etc) that are not that expensive and not as messy as nuclear power. If people spent a fraction as much research on this as we do on nuclear power, it wouldn't be that hard to lower the cost.

[tevarin]

I would tend to agree. Solar, wind, geothermal, biofuels, tidal, etc. etc.

It may take a lot of research time and money to get to the point where one or more of these is obviously cheaper and better than nuclear power plants, but it's worth the investment.