I for one, went through a similar experience. I was taking a program at a university in montreal, and was being forced to take the actual classes at a different school entirely. I was faced with getting a degree from one school, but doing the courses at another, or just leaving. After I met with advisors and recruiters from different schools, I ended up deciding to leave. That was a mistake. Because I was from a different part of the country, some of my courses were not recognized, and I was told I had to redo the '101' type science courses. However, since I was forced to do this, only upon completion would I be given admittance to the program of my choice. Needless to say, despite the marks I had, I was not admitted into the faculty as I had been promised by several recuiters and ended up changing programs entirely.
Long story short, stay where you are, finish as soon as possible, and get the parchement before you get the hell out.
The good thing is that hydrogen production can be done using only electricity, which doesnt depend on fossil fuels exclusively. In places like Quebec the vaste majority of electric production is hydro dams (which have their own problems but are about as green as you can get). Don't know much about production in other places.
As for nuclear energy, the problem with the waste is severly overblown. Yes, you have really bad radioactive byproducts that end up being buried but the good thing is that it is manageable and easily controled, which cannot be said for such things as car exhaust. Because you can stuff it in barrels you can restrict environmental damage provided you store in in a highly secure place, which is why geologically inert places such as locations in the canadian shield with no fault zones or groundwater (to prevent seepage) are used. Future solutions for radioactive disposal are inevitable. Maybe space flight will become much cheaper and we can dispose of it in the sun (which is one giant nuclear reactor anyways) or if we are really lucky, someone will invent a star-trek-like matter to energy converter
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I for one, went through a similar experience. I was taking a program at a university in montreal, and was being forced to take the actual classes at a different school entirely. I was faced with getting a degree from one school, but doing the courses at another, or just leaving. After I met with advisors and recruiters from different schools, I ended up deciding to leave. That was a mistake. Because I was from a different part of the country, some of my courses were not recognized, and I was told I had to redo the '101' type science courses. However, since I was forced to do this, only upon completion would I be given admittance to the program of my choice. Needless to say, despite the marks I had, I was not admitted into the faculty as I had been promised by several recuiters and ended up changing programs entirely. Long story short, stay where you are, finish as soon as possible, and get the parchement before you get the hell out.
The good thing is that hydrogen production can be done using only electricity, which doesnt depend on fossil fuels exclusively. In places like Quebec the vaste majority of electric production is hydro dams (which have their own problems but are about as green as you can get). Don't know much about production in other places.
As for nuclear energy, the problem with the waste is severly overblown. Yes, you have really bad radioactive byproducts that end up being buried but the good thing is that it is manageable and easily controled, which cannot be said for such things as car exhaust. Because you can stuff it in barrels you can restrict environmental damage provided you store in in a highly secure place, which is why geologically inert places such as locations in the canadian shield with no fault zones or groundwater (to prevent seepage) are used. Future solutions for radioactive disposal are inevitable. Maybe space flight will become much cheaper and we can dispose of it in the sun (which is one giant nuclear reactor anyways) or if we are really lucky, someone will invent a star-trek-like matter to energy converter