Things Get Worse at Fukushima

An anonymous reader writes "Radiation levels are skyrocketing around Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant as reports indicate that a radioactive core has overheated and melted through its containment vessel and onto a concrete floor. Radiation levels inside reactor two were recently gauged at 1,000 millisieverts per hour — a level so high that workers could only remain in the area for 15 minutes under current exposure guidelines."

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[pixelpusher220]

more power hits the earth in terms of sunlight in a single HOUR than we use in an entire YEAR as a PLANET. Simply a matter of collecting it (easyish) and storing it for night time (harder).

I even give you sources for my claims:
From Solar Energy Absorbed
The total solar energy absorbed by Earth's atmosphere, oceans and land masses is approximately 3,850,000 exajoules (EJ) per year. In 2002, this was more energy in one hour than the world used in one year. Photosynthesis captures approximately 3,000 EJ per year in biomass. The amount of solar energy reaching the surface of the planet is so vast that in one year it is about twice as much as will ever be obtained from all of the Earth's non-renewable resources of coal, oil, natural gas, and mined uranium combined.

There won't be a single replacement solution. But using renewable sources we can easily meet our current and future power needs.