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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
What's your definition of viable?
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Usefull energy on a scale that is economicky feasable at present.
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Nuclear makes us all ill.
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Who? May the inhabitants downwind of Chernobyl, but then again the Russians are absolutely incompetant when it comes to nuclear safety.
Coal fired power plants put more uranium into the atmosphere a year than are in the cores of nuclear plants. And the stuff in a fission reactor you maintain control of and bury, returning it to the earth in a less radioactive form than it came out.
The simple fact is that nuclear is the only commercially viable non-emission technology that exists presently, all paranoia to the contrary.
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
And hydro isn't about dams exclusively; think run-of-the-river hydro.
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Free flow hyrdo is a great thing, but it makes a river un-navigable, which increases reliance on fossil powered land transport, which is far less efficient than water transport. It also effectively kills the economies of most inland communities in South America which rely on the rivers as thier primary transportation.