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Originally Posted by w14
Are you going to explain why?
It has nothing to do with "capitalist dogma." We have got past this dogma many times in history, even in capitalist societies. It just requires some leadership.
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If you don't mind contra' I'd like to respond to the Nuclear question.
The reason that nuclear power is not 100% viable is that it requires the trade of enriched nuclear fuel. The production of which is extremely carbon intensive. Also the fuel is traded which means that, although we could have a good supply of Uranium deposits globally, we will still need to either buy it from another less friendly country as a raw material and pay to enrich it ourselves, or we will have to buy enriched fuel from someone else at a greater cost.
You then have a problem with what to do with the waste product which as you can see from my previous post has a seriously long half-life.
(incidentally I spoke to a nuclear physicist about your '50 year' half-life suggestion, and he is very excited to know how this is possible - so please forward the publication that details how an element that is bound/identified by a specific number of quantum particles can degrade faster than any thing else that we know of).
The other problem with nuclear power is the scale of government assistance in the form of financial subsidy that the industry receives as we can see from todays Independent:-
http://news.independent.co.uk/busine...ticle22822.ece