Nuclear Power

[Didaicos]

Nuclear Power is worth considering, of course to many it will be a Nimby (Not In My Back Yard); but compared to coal I think the benefits outweight the negatives. Of course being in Victoria which has 500-800 years of power with regards to brown coal; it may be hard to convince the change.

[Harvey]

wtf is with everyone dismissing renewable energy as a sustainable source of energy?

I'm currently working for an energy retailer, Victoria Electricity, promoting Green Energy which eliminates household greenhouse gas emissions, usually around 6.5 tonnes a year per household. In addition to the savings in pollution, we're actually offering 5% off standard government regulated rates.

So in other words its actually cheaper than coal-burnt electricity.

Why spend valuble resources on nuclear power, which has significant drawbacks, when there is a perfectly clean and cheap energy source already readily available?

[sherrife]

Personally i wasn't doing anything of the sort, i'm as greeny as they get, and think that we should employ every possible renewable source and research it to the shithouse.

Unfortunately i also think with so many people on this planet, most of whom will eventually be getting computers, tvs, fridges, etc., there will just be too much demand for electricity...

Unless of course we can harness ocean channels or something on that sort of grand scale. Who knows, nuclear power might not be vital in the long term, but some sort of international ocean-based power plant system is a very very long way off, and all the other green sources have capacity problems at the moment, so its a choice between more coal, or nuclear (at least in the short term).

Given this, i think the arguments against coal are so incredibly strong, that even the huge problem of waste is smaller in comparison. I think i read somewhere that China and India alone will something like double the greenhouse gas emissions of the earth if they continue to develop as they have over the next decade or two using coal plants alone... we simply cannot afford to let that happen.

[member34258]

Hooray for nuclear power!
I want to have Homers job if a plant is built near me.