More on Nuke Alternatives

Well, this guy seems to know what he's talking about. I recall however, that energy savings in cars have been spent mostly on increased power and increased size, and only marginally on increased MPG. I wonder if a world using his stuff would use less energy, or just do more. Not sure, but that's the kind of problem that I'm sure we'd all love to have.

Until next time, remember that the all-time score remains Technology: eleventy billion, Malthusians: 0 (i.e., "we're not dead yet.").

Nucular Energee

So, anybody want to convince me why nuclear energy is a bad idea? You know, relative to the alternatives? As I see it, coal, oil and gas have various pollution issues (including, perhaps, carbon) as well as limited availability. Wind and solar are useful in some places but tend to be too decentralized and expensive to utilize in the places where they're needed the most (a power transport problem). How are the issues with nuke power (security, disposal) worse than all of that? And don't nukes have the advantage of zero emissions, sufficient supply, and enormous capacity?

I guess we could just wait for fusion, but I'm imagining that India and China would, given the choice, prefer to industrialize now rather than later, no?