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Originally Posted by jimmyh1555
So, now we are told that by 2050 no more petrol driven cars will be produced. So by, say 2060, all our trucks will be electric powered.
My question is "Where do our beloved leaders think all that extra required power to drive our vehicles will come from?"
Wind farms are pathetic.
Solar power much too expensive and as bad as wind.
Coal is banned
There is only ONE realistic power supply we can use.........NUCLEAR
France's main source of power is nuclear. UK, USA and many others have perfectly good nuclear power plants.
Australia? playing high and mighty and pretending not to worry. The only nuke power we have in Australia is in X ray machines!
Wake up Australia and get with it  |
The simple answer to this argument is:
We have been burning fossil fuels for a long time and the waste product is destroying our planet.
If we switch to nuclear, we largely eliminate the carbon emissions and replace them with nuclear waste.
Carbon can be sucked from the atmosphere over the short term, high level nuclear waste will be around for millenia
The long term solution for power is three fold.
1/ Stop bloody wasting it by treating it as a something you can piss away without consequence
2/ Only develop power sources that have no waste product
3/ Get innovative. The national grid system is obsolete. Most power can, and should, come from local, small scale, grids based on renewable mix with storage. The options for renewable energy are constantly growing, as are the storage choices. Base load can be supplied by renewable sources; one just has to look at the huge thermal systems being built NOW that melt sodium as examples.
IMHO opinion, nuclear may have a role if processes can be developed that do not generate wastes with half lives of millennia but, until then, we'ed just be contributing to the stockpile of hell that already exists around the world.