Environment & Energy

...comprehension skills, that nuclear energy need not be without impact nor does it need to be perfect in any other way, for instance risk, to be vastly superior to everything else.

It only needs to be vastly superior to everything else, which it is.

Now, can we be clear on something as this increasingly bizarre conversation continues: Antinukes and "I'm not an antinuke" antinukes, routinely hold nuclear to standards they apply to nothing else.

Nuclear energy has, not only the lowest carbon impact of any form of primary energy, it also has the lowest material, e.g.mining, costs, the lowest land use costs, the highest infrastructure lifetimes, the highest capacity utilization, the smallest waste profile of any form of primary energy.

None of these mentioned factors need to be zero for land use, mining, waste or risk, or 100% for reliability to be superior to all other options.

I remind any intellectually, morally, educationally deficient antinuke who wishes to challenge me on this point that I am an antinuke apostate, that I was a member of their cult until Chornobyl blew up demonstrating for all time what the worst case possible is. That case is trivial compared to the collapse of the planetary atmosphere, the theft of all the world's best ores from future generations, the ravaging of wilderness, the daily unarrested death toll from air pollution, rising seas, the collapse of agricultural productivity, and deaths from extreme weather.

If one can't grasp my apostate's passion and the moral points that drive it, that's not my problem. I am satisfied that I will die on the right side of history and I am proud of the sons I raised to fight the appalling ignorance that has come to flow, like burning gasoline, that characterizes these awful times in energy issues and beyond. I worked hard, very hard, to develop my ideas, and as a result, have little respect for intellectual and moral laziness. I may not be proud of everything I've done in my life, but I am proud of developing my understanding of energy and it's impact on the environment, humanity, and indeed all living things.

Got it?

No?

I couldn't care less.

Have a nice day..