Discussion is ridiculous. We dont NEED any electric power, we dont NEED to have light or internets. WE WANT to drive fast, microwave our food, fuck our wives on Carribean islands, and then watch the holiday home video on our 38 inch Plasma TV when we get back.
This takes power. Now, if we came at the need to power FROM SCRATCH, with the technology and knowledge of today, we would choose solar energy. Its efficient, current tech( on shoestring funding, imagine with real money) can harvest 40% of the energy that falls on each panel. Thats less than half. So if we funded solar power research, that figure could skyrocket. BUT: Its not finacially viable to the old industry: THEY RUN most countries. Im not trying to convince anyone of any CONSPIRACY THEORY, or something, but oil companies DO run most of the worlds goverments right now, and they do that by MONEY.
Brazil made the sensible descision: LETS KEEP OUR CORRUPTION LOCAL! They too have the issue of the power companies using their finacial weight to alter political movement, but at least its all local, since they grow their own fuel (Fuel which is cheaper and releases MORE energy than oil).
Since we live in a disgustingly warped world where imaginary numbers we invented called "money" seems to rule everyones actions, it isnt hard to see that we will all be oil dependant untill it finally runs out (production "peaked" over 2 years ago, there is next to none left in the ground, and what's left is the bottom layers, much sediment, very expensive to process), then the next ALREADY DEVELOPED BUT LIMITED FUEL will be put on sale, because thats how it works:
In the '70s a washing machine was developed that WOULD NOT BREAK DOWN. It was ideal, the perfect washing machine.
GE and Maytag BOUGHT THE PLANS, copyrighted the process, and destroyed the working models.
WHY? Because if you sell someone something that will never need replacing, they will only buy ONE from you, sell them something that breaks every 2 yrs, and they will buy one every 2 years from you.
SAME WITH POWER COMPANIES: They are not interested in clean fuels, endless energy, or safety! MONEY, they want your MONEY, and if you will pay them for oil they will SELL you oil, it costs them less than a penny a barrel to process, and they MAKE over 100% of that back. They are making money hand over foot. Nuclear power is almost forever, AND someone is asking them to TAKE CARE?? NO, nuclear reactors are made the same way as any other power plant: As cheaply as possible to do the job. If it never breaks, you never get payed to fix it. Thats not good buisiness.
Hate to bring the real world in here with me, but wake up people, its not about what we ant, or whats best for us, its about what makes the most money for the guy at the top. Simple. Now grow up, we need nuke power like we need cancer. The clean, green energy solutions already excist, as does the process to make fuel from hemp, 100% clean burning, produced from the ground, but we will NOT be allowed to use it untill the companies that OWN the copyrights LET us.
And guess who those companies are? YES, the same ones who sell us oil, build our nuke plants, and tell us to turn our heating up....