Duke has a point...
Government only screws stuff up, and when government gets involved its only really to benefit other parties. Organic vegetables for instance..... Pretty simple concept, but it wasn't until big growers got involved where they made it far too expensive for the little guy to get into.
More than likely Petrol companies got involved in nuclear and brought fear and other things into the mix to create red tape, and completely made nuclear unfeasible, and we see this from other countries.
Nuclear is actually VERY VERY clean, and releases very little pollutants into the environment... If we would have invested in nuclear right now, we would have GREATLY reduced green house gases, AND made power VERY VERY affordable for the individual. Fact of the matter is big power companies dont want this... See large corporations just like to dance around issues. "Well if we only got more cash we could do it.". But big companies love consumables, because consumables are very profitable. They can make profit on the consumable, they can make profit on the transmission, and they can make profit on the power produced.
Nuclear if done right allows for a LARGE amount of generation in a VERY VERY small foot print. Sorry, but solar, wind and hydro cannot compete sqft for sqft.
Renewable is cool, but the amount of time, and the amount of strides we have to make, really make renewable energy out of touch for most people. Renewable right now is a rich persons game. I just installed a 10.88kw system on my house, and I spent close to 40k for everything. Thats a pretty expensive price point for most people.
Power companies, government, etc etc don't care for you and I. Simply put. We put so much power into government hands, and so much faith into them, when we simply shouldn't. Remember our government couldn't even operate a whore house.... (Bunny Ranch). Yet for some reason we expect them to run our lives, tell us how to get energy, create plans on how we can get to a common goal. However, those gas companies, those coal companies, those .... only care about 1 thing... That profit.
You stamp out the competition to boast your products. This debate sort of reminds me of the Tesla/Edison debate. "AC is better, NO DC IS BETTER". Crap in our everyday lives we use both AC and DC now don't we. Both have benefits.
Nuclear has GREAT benefits, and solar has great benefits. We cannot simply rely on one form of technology, we've got to rely on more than one, and we shouldn't discount nuclear because some asshole decided to discredit it, and make everybody believe that its, "dirty, unclean power".
It is VERY clean, and VERY safe, and if we got the same people who couldn't even run a whore house out of it, we can bring those prices down even more.
Whats funny, is a majority of what you pay for to be seen at the doctor is mainly administration costs. It's not really the 10 cent cotton balls, or the 5 dollar bag of saline. It's all of the padding they have to include to facilitate Mr. gubberment. Again, same people who couldn't even run a VERY profitable whore house.
Again, when government gets involved, they can kill any market, and it doesn't even have to be for the right reasons... Maybe their buddy buddy, decided to donate to their campaign, so now they have to push the agenda.
Battery storage is also a pretty big joke... IMO mining for lithium is far dirtier, and worse for the environment than nuclear. That's the point isn't it? We need power at night, as well as the day. PV helps during the day, but man the other night I was looking at my system stats, and I was only generating about 40w of power. Do we rely on natural gas turbines, or petrol powered turbines, or wind, or hydro? I mean jeez, even Hydro has its whoas. It's EXTREMELY dirty for the first 30 years of its power generation.
Nuclear is clean, its ready right now, and it can be done VERY cheaply compared to PV/battery backups/wind/hydro, and the best part is, it can supply power for EVERYBODY here in the United States in a faction of the foot print of all of those combined.
Just sayin' ... bro.
