katy wrote:

Gilligan wrote:

If man is causing global warming, then man can cure it.

There is only one viable option -

Atomic Power!


And then what happens when we tun out of uranium,and all the other
elemental radioactive materials?

Not going to happen anytime soon. The main point of nuclear energy is
that you get a *lot* of energy from a small amount of fuel.

We just start splitting hydrogen atoms
for fun and profit?

Probably not, since you can't split an atom with only one proton.
Hopefully, we'll be *fusing* hydrogen atoms sometime in my lifetime, but
unfortutately the fusion horizon hasn't gotten any closer.

And what about all the spent waste?

That is a problem. Not an insurmountable one, but it's a serious one.

Isn't one of
the only things they've found that cleanses nuclear waste after a long
ling time swamp environments?

You don't "cleanse" radioactive atoms, you patiently wait for them to
decay on their own. Some of them take a really long time. Never heard
anything about a swamp, but it won't help.


And doens't China and Russia have some of
the largest reserves of unmined eadioactive elements?

Maybe. Not sure what that has to do with the price of eggs.

Glen is right that nuclear energy *can* be done safely and economically
- France has shown it to be the case.

The question we US citizens face is whether the American system can run
nuclear plants safely and efficiently. If Consumers Energy (Ohio) is
any guide, the answer is no. When you have managers constantly cutting
costs to bolster the bottom line, anti-regulatory zealots eliminating
required safety proceedures, and a political spoils system that rewards
the freest-spending lobbyist it becomes dubious proposition.



//Walt