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Originally Posted by Kearn
wind, solar - just patchy unreliable bandaid technology, dreamy fiddling at the edges stuff.
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Not correct Kearn, wind power is alive and doing very well in Tasmania and has been for years. Solar is viable, I have a shack that has been powered by solar for over 15 years. The power system is very modest, and so are my power requirements. When the weather is less favourable, I adjust my usage to suit. Building nuclear power stations is the ultimate bandaid, albeit a very toxic one, so is burning coal, as others have stated it will all be gone in a few years. Given that the current debate is fuelled by a report prepared the Nuclear industry it's not surprising that it's being pushed, especially given our current government's "favourable" handling of some parts of the energy sector (e.g. ethanol), to the detriment of others. You can also bet that if these accidents waiting to happen (nuclear power stations) are ever built that the mining and export of coal will continue, where's the sense in that? It's time that Joe Average started to question the actions of our pollies and the motivation behind them and take steps to efficiently use what we already have and not sell our children’s future for a few bucks for corporate interests and a short time solution to the energy crunch that is inevitable. As a race we need to examine the way we live, the damage we do and the unsustainable growth model all our economies rely on.
If you want to see the ultimate result when governments pander to industry come to Northern Tasmania and experience the (year round) filthiest air in the country courtesy of forestry interests, many tourists are writing to the media and refusing to return because of the constant air pollution. Consider this... Despite being designed and manuactured for decades, they still haven't been able to build a foolproof aeroplane (or anything else for that matter), what makes you think they can design and build a foolproof reactor.