Well I have had no word from Strateco since I sent an e-mail a week ago... hmmmm

And, finally, there’s nuclear, the closest thing we have today to a viable base load green power in that it requires a small amount of feed and produces a small output of waste – all of which is well within humanity’s ability to manage and, in time, to reprocess into yet more energy or harmless waste.

It’s like manna from heaven, but due to then-justified fears from the earliest days of the technology, fears that have been put to rest by the highly advanced nuclear technologies now utilized, it’s manna that many humans want us to turn our back on.

As you can see from the table below, the world already has a serious reliance on nuclear, with notoriously green countries such as Sweden deriving over 40% of its base load power from nuclear, and the French over 75%.

Instead of squandering untold billions of dollars, resources, and time on sketchy and low-potential alternatives, the world should go all the way with nuclear. That’s not to say that the quest for efficient solar and whatever else looks feasible shouldn’t continue – just that we have to have our priorities straight.

In time, the profit potential from creating a workable alternative for the base load power industry ensures that such alternatives will be found. But in the here and now, the priority should be to dramatically reduce our reliance on uncertain foreign sources of oil, as quickly as possible. If that’s the priority, then nuclear wins hands down.

And, for the record, the enviro-alarmists like to show the “smoke stacks” of nuclear plants spewing out particulates that the less informed might incorrectly assume are radioactive clouds of doom or some such. Don’t worry about it – it’s steam.

Regardless of your views on energy, there’s no debate that it’s the stuff that allows humanity to make economic progress. As a consequence, it’s extremely important to stay in touch, and informed, on the latest developments, and to remain open-minded about the challenges the world is currently facing in keeping the lights on.

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