TSA: What Color is my Shirt Man 1: Blue TSA: Hold on... (Flips a switch) Now what color is my shirt Man 1: Yellow. TSA: Are you going to blow up this plane? Man 1: Yes. TSA: Ok you are free to pass. Next Man 2: Hello TSA: What Color is my Shirt Man 2: Blue TSA: Hold on... (Flips a switch) Now what color is my shirt Man 2: Yellow. TSA: Are you going to blow up this plane? Man 2: No. TSA: Please stand aside.
Not really. You will need to assume the Energy to product artificial gravity would be greater then the energy to make real gravity. So it will still probably take more energy then what is produced. Especially on the small scale energy production we need (Compared to a star).
They kinda have too. If Google uses that much power, their Power bill(s) is probably a major expense, finding ways to reduce it by a few percentage, can save a lot of money. Green Energy like wind and solar, needs big power users, who see energy as a major expense and has the resources and will to invest in making cheaper alternatives. Renewable energy sources tend to look good on paper you can get Cheaper Energy in theory after the initial capital expense.
The US isn't legally tied to a Two Party system. There are some Senators and Representative who belong to other parties but tend to ally themselves with either the the Republicans or Democrats. But the US has had different political parties over its history that had power. Federalists (Well supported by Christian groups (Like the republicans), Believed in a strong federal government (Like the Democrats)), Democratic-Republicans (Believed in strong state rights (Like the republicans), wanted to keep religion out of government (Like the democrats)) Whigs (Increased power to the congress, Supporter of Industry, Supporter of Public Education),
Unfortunately around the Civil War, the US got more polarized (Originally around the issue of Race, and Race relations) Where the Republicans were for Better Civil Rights, while the Democrats were still trying to keep the old White Superiority concept. Until around FDR where Democrats started new policies that were more for equal rights. Then over the next few decades the Democrats took away a lot of the progressive social issues once held by the Republicans.
The United States is a Two Party system not by law but by practice and tradition now.
There is no difference between a perceived value and a real value. All values are perceived. We decide to choose if something is valuable or not. Why is Gold so valuable? Sure it is rare (But not that rare) , and does have some cool properties but we have other metals that about as good. So why is Gold worth so much more then other materials that may be more Rare, or Useful? Because we choose it to be valuable.
Probably going back millions of years when someone found a shiny rock and someone else wanted that shiny rock, so they were willing to give him so much food/resources for it.
It is often a bad idea to teach yourself how to program by looking at someone else's code.
Why? 1. You are not getting best practices. There are coding guidelines that should be followed but there are always exceptions, and not everyone knows all the rules and will break them needlessly. I am a profession coder with decades of experience... But I am still learning new and better ways to do things and I look back at my old code and I go what the heck was I thinking. And the answer was Oh yea, I needed to get it done and I didn't know about some feature at the time so I had to make this hack to get it to work. Looking at someones code you will get the good stuff mixed with the half drunk, or just a bad day.
2.It is overwhelming. It is more then just being tossed into the deep end, It is being tossed in the deep end with weights attached to your legs. Especially if you new to development and don't know where to start you can see. If you start in the middle you will spend huge amount of time looking at code that does something very minor but with no idea why.
3. You do not have a goal. You can't just look at a program and say I know how it works... You really need a goal to fix something, otherwise you are looking at stuff blindly.
4. Those sneaky 3rd party libraries. Unless you are doing some real low level coding there will probably be references to those 3rd party libraries that will not really let you know how things work.
5. Too much to handle. A computer is a great tool for processing a lot of commands that is often too complex for a human to understand. A programmer rarely ever thinks of how the entire program is programmed only his own little world, or his world at the time. And will often go back to see some code that they written and wonder who written that and when.
If you really want to learn, I would suggest that you start out with giving you a goal project to make. And search for small examples about the current feature you want to implement. Integrate the examples and alter them see what is happening. Once you get good at making your own stuff, learning the tradeoffs and pitfalls then you can start looking at someone else code to expand off of it. Making new code is easy, modifying others is actually more difficult. That is why I am not a Huge supporter of Open Source Ideals, and more of supporter of Open Specification.
Yahoo! had its place. Between the Large BBS's (AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve.) Where information was categorized and had easy navigation but stored at the Company, and the Google and the Wide Open Internet, where you need to search for what suits you. Yahoo! was good at the time categorizing the information and giving you links to what was useful.
Leading Edge Companies, tend to become outdated. Why because they get so ingrossed in their success and making fun of all the old guys they don't pay attention to the other new guys rising up to beat them. Also with their new technology, they are often afrade to inovate the next step, because it could kill off their tride and true profit revenue.
Only time will tell if something is a Fad or the next big thing.
But the Fallout from Fukushima while more hazardous, but the hazard is contained, as it just doesn't spread across the world by air, and it can be collected and moved for the most part Carbon from fossil fuel spread everywhere. Someone living Countries away who do not have Cars or Power is suffering the same consequences as someone who does live in a country doing so. At least nuclear energy when there is a problem, the people who benefit the most from the power are also the ones taking the most risk.
"as this is a matter of professional conduct to be handled on the teacher level and administration level" I agree with you. However the problem is that public school teachers are Government Employees, Unionized, and have a Tenure. A lot of extra protection that could allow creepy people to stay in the system. Giving less power to Administration.
Now for this article I am not saying Unionization, Tenure or being a Government Employee is a bad thing on the whole, but it does create a problem where you need Laws to step in to stop problems that for other organisational structures would be Unprofessional conduct where disciplinary actions may take place.
So you mean Any group you disagree with are terrorists.
Terrorism - Violence performed in the act to promote wide spread fear. Tea Party - Spread wide spread fear.
The Tea Party isn't a Terrorist group, it is in the direction where it could go that way. But it hasn't really cross the line into violence yet, and really it is usually a big step move your organization into promoting violence (Not just the Organizations).
Here are some other organization groups that like to promote fear. Unions - Corporations goal is to enslave us. Environmental Groups - All Human progress, is going to kill us. Pro-Life: If you have an abortion you are going to hell. Pro-Choice: The Pro-Life people are out to stop woman from making Any Choices and bring us back to the dark ages. Republicans - If we have too many government funded resources we will stagnate and go bankrupt. Democrats - If we don't have enough government funded resources we will stagnate and go bankrupt. Atheists - If you believe in God you are hurting all of us because religion is holding us back from progress. Religious - If you don't believe in God you are hurting all of us because you are not following a moral compass. Close Source: Open Source will hurt civilization by reducing the ability to make profit of software. Open Source: Closed Source will hurt civilization by not allowing us to use software as we see fit.
The list goes on. Anything we normally feel strongly about is often because of fear of the alternative. And we are wired to alert people of our fears so we try to spread it to others who seem oblivious to the treat. Unfortunately many of these threats now are really not that big of a deal on any big picture, but we perceive them as threats and the more polarized our personality is the more we expect the other side is just as polarized in their directions. Why do you think the Tea Party is so against welfare? Is is because they don't see the people who truly need it, they see the minority who actively abuse it as an excuse not work and get a free ride. Because their view is so polarized they fail to see the other side as being any more moderate.
FreeBSD is better designed for a particular subset. Linux has forces trying to make it the OS that does everything. Mobile OS, Desktop OS, Server OS, Mainframe OS, Runs on the Newest Hardware, Runs on the Oldest 32 bit computer that you can find.
FreeBSD has mostly been focused on Workstation/Server usage. Allowing it to use more optimal algorithms then Linux does, for its particular usage. So if a particular algorithm improves performance of a particular common kernel call 4 times faster, and when you are emulating Linux the capture and switch of kernel call request take twice the effort, you are still gaining in performance.
Now Linux may have perfectly good reasons not to implement those calls that FreeBSD does. (gain some extra flexibility, easier to read code, backwards compatibility, found that it is actually works better on different platform, uses less memory...), But for a standard modern desktop/workstation FreeBSD is probably a bit snappier then Linux is. It doesn't mean FreeBSD is always faster then Linux.
The problem with CAs are that they never really do their job quite well. If you are paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for a Cert they really should do a lot more work to verify who you are and the browser should identify the level of security the Cert gives. A cheap level (Under $50 per IP) for those B2B type of apps where you are connecting to a trusted source anyways but you don't want the error message or tell your customer to setup something new. A one note should suffice. Then you got a level good for online business (Under $500) this is for online stores, the CA needs to determine that it is a real store with the ability to sell the goods. However the browser should alert when ever there is a data stream that looks like a social security number or pushes a request for such non-merchant information. then you got the premium HIPAA level cert where it the CA needs to keep a close eye on its organization make sure the companies security is strong enough for the CERT this would be a full allow for the browser.
If we can get the Adult Industry to sell their.COMs and go to.XXX it would make an easier to manage Internet. Especially if you are searching for name of an old XWindows software you were looking for.
After I saw the picture I was quite disturbed that it was a High Resolution magnified image. It is like saying that when you use Google Earth to zoom into your house you go I can see my house from space.
I was thinking that this event was so big that it could be seen with the Unaided Eye (well the aid of air and pressure) from space. No it is just a zoom in picture.
It isn't that we agreed that it was acceptable, It is just better then all the other alternatives. Our animal instincts are shortsighted by nature. I am hungry I need food now. Our Brains have evolved to reason for us to say I am hungry now however if I wait 4 more hours I can get a better meal and not get fired so I can buy more meals later. Capitalism is a way for us to take our needs and wants and places a value on those needs and wants and forces us to think ahead to peruse them or not. We think of a Utopian future where when we are hungry we can eat and we can do whatever to pass the time that we feel is interesting at the time. That won't work because in order for some to do what they want there are others that will need to do the jobs that others do not want to do, or have to dedicate a percentage to their life to prepare to do such a job. Now your salary is often based on supply and demand. Garbage Men do get paid better then a Fast Food Restaurant worker. Because less people want to deal with the grime and dirt of Garbage then the smell of fast food, also the Garbage man may need training to license him to drive the truck. However a lot of people make the decision to work in fast food even for less money because the job doesn't require any special skills. Now does it always work like that no... Human beings are not perfect, and rarely if ever follow any theoretical models. But the other alternatives I have seen do not seem to have a way to force people to do jobs that they don't want to do effectively.
Canada doesn't have close to the population the US does. it is Population and Density. Canada has Low Population and a Low Density. The US has a High Population and a Low Density. It is the double whammy of issues. Canada only had the Low Density problem
It is population and density. UPS and FEDEX don't have an issue because their volume is low enough to cover those stragglers. USPS delivers crap to us nearly every day. UPS and FEDEX only delivers goods we really request. And normally We pay for it to be delivered to Us.
It's not PC but it happens, the US also bends to allow other nations interests to go threw too. It is called Diplomacy. These stints of making a compromise that prevents issues from building up and becoming a major issue.
The reason why it is not made public because the average Joe doesn't understand the concept of a good compromise where at the end both sides are equally unhappy. So they will make these small viewed complaints (Swedish make copyright policy just so we can get the latest American Blue Rays films) While the complexity of international trade is ignored, not realizing this effects shipment of more then just Films, but software, books, and other sources of information. If a company doesn't see your country as a profitable place to sell goods they won't sell to you. And you end up with loosing out on receiving goods and services that make that company unique. This isn't just about a monopoly every company has something that gives it a competitive advantage over someone else. Blocking trade has probably been considered more costly then the Copyright Policy.
I never said that there isn't problems with nuclear, or that is is free of trade offs. But really compared to fossil fuel sources Nuclear is much cleaner and safer, and it is also portable as it can be placed anywhere.
The problem is when someone says how about nuclear energy, you get a bunch of uninformed morons fearing a nuclear blast, or it spewing out radiation killing everyone withing a 3 mile radius, thus preventing the nuclear plant from being created and either being replaced by or prolonging the operation of Coal Energy which is much worse. (Waist product that cannot be controlled, Dangerous mining (Granted uranium isn't that much safer), Green House Gasses...) Nuclear when done correctly the waste products (Nuclear Waste, which is highly radioactive, and stays that way for a long time) can often be contained and moved to a location where it is more harmless.
Nuclear energy shouldn't be considered as US energy replacement solutions, but as a an acceptable alternative where other solutions cannot work.
Your problem is actually the countries problem. Green Energy works good in some spots and not all. Solar, Wind, Tidal, Hydroelectric, all have good and bad locations. More portable energy, Coal, Oil, Nuclear. Can be planned for and allocated and distributed anywhere for 24/7 usage, however tends to carry a larger environmental cost (Or just crazy people who fear it blindly like for Nuclear).
I remember in school an important lesson that most people do not get about environmentalism. Everything you do has a trade-off. How many fish die in those Tidal/Hydroelectric power. How many trees will you need to knock down for you Solar/Wind farm and what do do about night/no wind... There isn't any golden ticket for free energy they all come with a cost. Right now we are seeing the Fossil Fuels have been giving off there costs for too long and is making the problem worse. You should be teaching those kids about trade offs, not some magical future tech that will solve all our problems. Explain how to generate electricity how we use different types of energy. How usually when changing one energy to an other there is often a loss to a different form of energy that isn't useful. How to store energy, batteries, flywheels, springs... Heck show them when you stretch a rubber-band it gets warmer, and if you let it contract it gets cooler. You need to train kids to be think clearly environmentalism not envionuts and go out wasting more resources to stop all the evils that come up.
Slashdot Mirror
TSA: What Color is my Shirt
Man 1: Blue
TSA: Hold on... (Flips a switch) Now what color is my shirt
Man 1: Yellow.
TSA: Are you going to blow up this plane?
Man 1: Yes.
TSA: Ok you are free to pass. Next
Man 2: Hello
TSA: What Color is my Shirt
Man 2: Blue
TSA: Hold on... (Flips a switch) Now what color is my shirt
Man 2: Yellow.
TSA: Are you going to blow up this plane?
Man 2: No.
TSA: Please stand aside.
Politicians don't lie. They just don't believe in the truth.
Not really.
You will need to assume the Energy to product artificial gravity would be greater then the energy to make real gravity. So it will still probably take more energy then what is produced. Especially on the small scale energy production we need (Compared to a star).
They kinda have too. If Google uses that much power, their Power bill(s) is probably a major expense, finding ways to reduce it by a few percentage, can save a lot of money. Green Energy like wind and solar, needs big power users, who see energy as a major expense and has the resources and will to invest in making cheaper alternatives. Renewable energy sources tend to look good on paper you can get Cheaper Energy in theory after the initial capital expense.
The US isn't legally tied to a Two Party system. There are some Senators and Representative who belong to other parties but tend to ally themselves with either the the Republicans or Democrats.
But the US has had different political parties over its history that had power.
Federalists (Well supported by Christian groups (Like the republicans), Believed in a strong federal government (Like the Democrats)),
Democratic-Republicans (Believed in strong state rights (Like the republicans), wanted to keep religion out of government (Like the democrats))
Whigs (Increased power to the congress, Supporter of Industry, Supporter of Public Education),
Unfortunately around the Civil War, the US got more polarized (Originally around the issue of Race, and Race relations) Where the Republicans were for Better Civil Rights, while the Democrats were still trying to keep the old White Superiority concept. Until around FDR where Democrats started new policies that were more for equal rights. Then over the next few decades the Democrats took away a lot of the progressive social issues once held by the Republicans.
The United States is a Two Party system not by law but by practice and tradition now.
There is no difference between a perceived value and a real value. All values are perceived. We decide to choose if something is valuable or not. Why is Gold so valuable? Sure it is rare (But not that rare) , and does have some cool properties but we have other metals that about as good. So why is Gold worth so much more then other materials that may be more Rare, or Useful? Because we choose it to be valuable.
Probably going back millions of years when someone found a shiny rock and someone else wanted that shiny rock, so they were willing to give him so much food/resources for it.
It is often a bad idea to teach yourself how to program by looking at someone else's code.
Why?
1. You are not getting best practices. There are coding guidelines that should be followed but there are always exceptions, and not everyone knows all the rules and will break them needlessly. I am a profession coder with decades of experience... But I am still learning new and better ways to do things and I look back at my old code and I go what the heck was I thinking. And the answer was Oh yea, I needed to get it done and I didn't know about some feature at the time so I had to make this hack to get it to work. Looking at someones code you will get the good stuff mixed with the half drunk, or just a bad day.
2.It is overwhelming. It is more then just being tossed into the deep end, It is being tossed in the deep end with weights attached to your legs. Especially if you new to development and don't know where to start you can see. If you start in the middle you will spend huge amount of time looking at code that does something very minor but with no idea why.
3. You do not have a goal. You can't just look at a program and say I know how it works... You really need a goal to fix something, otherwise you are looking at stuff blindly.
4. Those sneaky 3rd party libraries. Unless you are doing some real low level coding there will probably be references to those 3rd party libraries that will not really let you know how things work.
5. Too much to handle. A computer is a great tool for processing a lot of commands that is often too complex for a human to understand. A programmer rarely ever thinks of how the entire program is programmed only his own little world, or his world at the time. And will often go back to see some code that they written and wonder who written that and when.
If you really want to learn, I would suggest that you start out with giving you a goal project to make.
And search for small examples about the current feature you want to implement. Integrate the examples and alter them see what is happening. Once you get good at making your own stuff, learning the tradeoffs and pitfalls then you can start looking at someone else code to expand off of it. Making new code is easy, modifying others is actually more difficult. That is why I am not a Huge supporter of Open Source Ideals, and more of supporter of Open Specification.
Yahoo! had its place. Between the Large BBS's (AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve.) Where information was categorized and had easy navigation but stored at the Company, and the Google and the Wide Open Internet, where you need to search for what suits you.
Yahoo! was good at the time categorizing the information and giving you links to what was useful.
Leading Edge Companies, tend to become outdated. Why because they get so ingrossed in their success and making fun of all the old guys they don't pay attention to the other new guys rising up to beat them.
Also with their new technology, they are often afrade to inovate the next step, because it could kill off their tride and true profit revenue.
Only time will tell if something is a Fad or the next big thing.
But the Fallout from Fukushima while more hazardous, but the hazard is contained, as it just doesn't spread across the world by air, and it can be collected and moved for the most part Carbon from fossil fuel spread everywhere. Someone living Countries away who do not have Cars or Power is suffering the same consequences as someone who does live in a country doing so. At least nuclear energy when there is a problem, the people who benefit the most from the power are also the ones taking the most risk.
It sounds like the Missouri school system has the same problem as the Catholic Church.
"as this is a matter of professional conduct to be handled on the teacher level and administration level" I agree with you. However the problem is that public school teachers are Government Employees, Unionized, and have a Tenure. A lot of extra protection that could allow creepy people to stay in the system. Giving less power to Administration.
Now for this article I am not saying Unionization, Tenure or being a Government Employee is a bad thing on the whole, but it does create a problem where you need Laws to step in to stop problems that for other organisational structures would be Unprofessional conduct where disciplinary actions may take place.
As a windows users on a PC with Limited access I am disappoint as well.
So you mean Any group you disagree with are terrorists.
Terrorism - Violence performed in the act to promote wide spread fear.
Tea Party - Spread wide spread fear.
The Tea Party isn't a Terrorist group, it is in the direction where it could go that way. But it hasn't really cross the line into violence yet, and really it is usually a big step move your organization into promoting violence (Not just the Organizations).
Here are some other organization groups that like to promote fear.
Unions - Corporations goal is to enslave us.
Environmental Groups - All Human progress, is going to kill us.
Pro-Life: If you have an abortion you are going to hell.
Pro-Choice: The Pro-Life people are out to stop woman from making Any Choices and bring us back to the dark ages.
Republicans - If we have too many government funded resources we will stagnate and go bankrupt.
Democrats - If we don't have enough government funded resources we will stagnate and go bankrupt.
Atheists - If you believe in God you are hurting all of us because religion is holding us back from progress.
Religious - If you don't believe in God you are hurting all of us because you are not following a moral compass.
Close Source: Open Source will hurt civilization by reducing the ability to make profit of software.
Open Source: Closed Source will hurt civilization by not allowing us to use software as we see fit.
The list goes on. Anything we normally feel strongly about is often because of fear of the alternative. And we are wired to alert people of our fears so we try to spread it to others who seem oblivious to the treat. Unfortunately many of these threats now are really not that big of a deal on any big picture, but we perceive them as threats and the more polarized our personality is the more we expect the other side is just as polarized in their directions. Why do you think the Tea Party is so against welfare? Is is because they don't see the people who truly need it, they see the minority who actively abuse it as an excuse not work and get a free ride. Because their view is so polarized they fail to see the other side as being any more moderate.
FreeBSD is better designed for a particular subset.
Linux has forces trying to make it the OS that does everything. Mobile OS, Desktop OS, Server OS, Mainframe OS, Runs on the Newest Hardware, Runs on the Oldest 32 bit computer that you can find.
FreeBSD has mostly been focused on Workstation/Server usage. Allowing it to use more optimal algorithms then Linux does, for its particular usage. So if a particular algorithm improves performance of a particular common kernel call 4 times faster, and when you are emulating Linux the capture and switch of kernel call request take twice the effort, you are still gaining in performance.
Now Linux may have perfectly good reasons not to implement those calls that FreeBSD does. (gain some extra flexibility, easier to read code, backwards compatibility, found that it is actually works better on different platform, uses less memory...), But for a standard modern desktop/workstation FreeBSD is probably a bit snappier then Linux is. It doesn't mean FreeBSD is always faster then Linux.
The problem with CAs are that they never really do their job quite well. If you are paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for a Cert they really should do a lot more work to verify who you are and the browser should identify the level of security the Cert gives.
A cheap level (Under $50 per IP) for those B2B type of apps where you are connecting to a trusted source anyways but you don't want the error message or tell your customer to setup something new. A one note should suffice. Then you got a level good for online business (Under $500) this is for online stores, the CA needs to determine that it is a real store with the ability to sell the goods. However the browser should alert when ever there is a data stream that looks like a social security number or pushes a request for such non-merchant information. then you got the premium HIPAA level cert where it the CA needs to keep a close eye on its organization make sure the companies security is strong enough for the CERT this would be a full allow for the browser.
If we can get the Adult Industry to sell their .COMs and go to .XXX it would make an easier to manage Internet. Especially if you are searching for name of an old XWindows software you were looking for.
After I saw the picture I was quite disturbed that it was a High Resolution magnified image. It is like saying that when you use Google Earth to zoom into your house you go I can see my house from space.
I was thinking that this event was so big that it could be seen with the Unaided Eye (well the aid of air and pressure) from space. No it is just a zoom in picture.
It isn't that we agreed that it was acceptable, It is just better then all the other alternatives. Our animal instincts are shortsighted by nature. I am hungry I need food now. Our Brains have evolved to reason for us to say I am hungry now however if I wait 4 more hours I can get a better meal and not get fired so I can buy more meals later. Capitalism is a way for us to take our needs and wants and places a value on those needs and wants and forces us to think ahead to peruse them or not.
We think of a Utopian future where when we are hungry we can eat and we can do whatever to pass the time that we feel is interesting at the time.
That won't work because in order for some to do what they want there are others that will need to do the jobs that others do not want to do, or have to dedicate a percentage to their life to prepare to do such a job. Now your salary is often based on supply and demand. Garbage Men do get paid better then a Fast Food Restaurant worker. Because less people want to deal with the grime and dirt of Garbage then the smell of fast food, also the Garbage man may need training to license him to drive the truck. However a lot of people make the decision to work in fast food even for less money because the job doesn't require any special skills.
Now does it always work like that no... Human beings are not perfect, and rarely if ever follow any theoretical models. But the other alternatives I have seen do not seem to have a way to force people to do jobs that they don't want to do effectively.
Canada doesn't have close to the population the US does. it is Population and Density. Canada has Low Population and a Low Density. The US has a High Population and a Low Density. It is the double whammy of issues. Canada only had the Low Density problem
It is population and density. UPS and FEDEX don't have an issue because their volume is low enough to cover those stragglers.
USPS delivers crap to us nearly every day. UPS and FEDEX only delivers goods we really request. And normally We pay for it to be delivered to Us.
United States tries to protects its own interest.
It's not PC but it happens, the US also bends to allow other nations interests to go threw too. It is called Diplomacy. These stints of making a compromise that prevents issues from building up and becoming a major issue.
The reason why it is not made public because the average Joe doesn't understand the concept of a good compromise where at the end both sides are equally unhappy. So they will make these small viewed complaints (Swedish make copyright policy just so we can get the latest American Blue Rays films) While the complexity of international trade is ignored, not realizing this effects shipment of more then just Films, but software, books, and other sources of information. If a company doesn't see your country as a profitable place to sell goods they won't sell to you. And you end up with loosing out on receiving goods and services that make that company unique. This isn't just about a monopoly every company has something that gives it a competitive advantage over someone else. Blocking trade has probably been considered more costly then the Copyright Policy.
You forgot to right click and select "Zoom-In" and then choose "Enhance".
I never said that there isn't problems with nuclear, or that is is free of trade offs.
But really compared to fossil fuel sources Nuclear is much cleaner and safer, and it is also portable as it can be placed anywhere.
The problem is when someone says how about nuclear energy, you get a bunch of uninformed morons fearing a nuclear blast, or it spewing out radiation killing everyone withing a 3 mile radius, thus preventing the nuclear plant from being created and either being replaced by or prolonging the operation of Coal Energy which is much worse. (Waist product that cannot be controlled, Dangerous mining (Granted uranium isn't that much safer), Green House Gasses...) Nuclear when done correctly the waste products (Nuclear Waste, which is highly radioactive, and stays that way for a long time) can often be contained and moved to a location where it is more harmless.
Nuclear energy shouldn't be considered as US energy replacement solutions, but as a an acceptable alternative where other solutions cannot work.
Your problem is actually the countries problem. Green Energy works good in some spots and not all. Solar, Wind, Tidal, Hydroelectric, all have good and bad locations. More portable energy, Coal, Oil, Nuclear. Can be planned for and allocated and distributed anywhere for 24/7 usage, however tends to carry a larger environmental cost (Or just crazy people who fear it blindly like for Nuclear).
I remember in school an important lesson that most people do not get about environmentalism. Everything you do has a trade-off. How many fish die in those Tidal/Hydroelectric power. How many trees will you need to knock down for you Solar/Wind farm and what do do about night/no wind... There isn't any golden ticket for free energy they all come with a cost. Right now we are seeing the Fossil Fuels have been giving off there costs for too long and is making the problem worse.
You should be teaching those kids about trade offs, not some magical future tech that will solve all our problems. Explain how to generate electricity how we use different types of energy. How usually when changing one energy to an other there is often a loss to a different form of energy that isn't useful. How to store energy, batteries, flywheels, springs... Heck show them when you stretch a rubber-band it gets warmer, and if you let it contract it gets cooler.
You need to train kids to be think clearly environmentalism not envionuts and go out wasting more resources to stop all the evils that come up.