I keep meaning to have a bumper sticker made: “Solar Power is Nuclear Power!” with a cute little trefoil for one of the O’s.
Until we can do profitable fusion, though, “alternative” energy may be the best, holistically.
Neighborhood-, ward-, and city-sized nuclear à la Taylor Wilson’s proposal would be ideal, but humans will be humans and we can’t afford such a security risk. This pains me to no end. We’ve been given a near-magical metal (see XKCD, “Plutonium”) but we’re too... base to manufacture and use it appropriately.
I’m butchering it, but the quote that keeps coming back to me is, “Nuclear is a 22nd-century solution to a 20th-century problem.”
If you’re into fate and religious stuff, I have a suspicion it was deliberately dangled in front of us as the one way to conquer interstellar space, if we can maturely manage the material itself.
Until we can do profitable fusion, though, “alternative” energy may be the best, holistically.
Neighborhood-, ward-, and city-sized nuclear à la Taylor Wilson’s proposal would be ideal, but humans will be humans and we can’t afford such a security risk. This pains me to no end. We’ve been given a near-magical metal (see XKCD, “Plutonium”) but we’re too... base to manufacture and use it appropriately.
I’m butchering it, but the quote that keeps coming back to me is, “Nuclear is a 22nd-century solution to a 20th-century problem.”
If you’re into fate and religious stuff, I have a suspicion it was deliberately dangled in front of us as the one way to conquer interstellar space, if we can maturely manage the material itself.