I'm not against wind and solar at all. The most efficient and clean source of power is nuclear, but heaven forbid we even talk about this. Yes there was an accident in Ukraine, but it was poorly built, poorly designed, and poorly run. Yes there are risks in everything we do like many birds being killed flying into windmills, but as you said, we have learned a lot sense the first plant went on line and the new plants are much more safer. In fact a European company has designed a small plant that can be installed in series or stand alone for say, a manufacturing plant, and it is so safe that it has been proven to not be able to run away under any condition. This is the kind of thinking that will solve global warming, not the gov just throwing money around which has never been proven to be effective. Everything the gov. touches is poorly run without throwing money at it. If UPS and FedEx can deliver parcels and make money doing it, why can't the post office do the same, same with Amtrack. Regarding the spent fuel rods, it was suggested that they could be loaded into a capsule and sent into deep space and do this cost effectively, but some idiot said we cant be polluting space with radioactive waste. But space is very radioactive, so radioactive that this is the biggest issue Musk faces if we are to send folks to Mars.
