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Solar energy (direct: sunlight to electricity) seems to be most elegant but without deep analysis of environmental costs of mass production of solar cells (still rather toxis Selenium technology is used?) to "cover whole Montana to power whole world".
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Most realistic is the present (until controlled fusion is developped) "Uranium" power plant.
Fears are just magic taboo thinking by ignorant masses. They stopped fearing devils, ghosts, the plague, flying saucers, etc. so they have to fear something else, be it the atom, bird-flu, cancer-tomato...
How many people died as result of nuclear power accidents, apart from - e.g. - falling down the stairs inside a power plant? Apart from the monkeys-and-hand-grenade Chernobyl disaster - probably zero.
Scientist Slocum died when his scredriver slipped while screwing together semi-spheres of Uranium in a lab the early days, still earlier Madam Curie, and???? I worked at a reactor, so I know a little...
Three-Mile-Island plant? Apparently not a gram of radioactive stuff got out from the containment.
And coal miners are dying by tens or even hundreds each week. This year already some 30 in Poland and in China? how many thousands?? And how about pollution that we all breathe? Oil/gas? How many decades will it last, even with ever newly-found but ever more expensive to pump-out deposits? And inevitable conflicts with Arabs, Russians getting filthy rich but getting deeper and deeper into the trap of being a raw-resorces-country, numbers reducing so there'll be just 70 mil. of them in 60 yrs - OK, but Islamists will get them first and we, the Weestern civilisation will have Iraq/Afganistan from Poland to Bering Straits...
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1. Solar energy (direct: sunlight to electricity) seems to be most elegant but without deep analysis of environmental costs of mass production of solar cells (still rather toxis Selenium technology is used?) to "cover whole Montana to power whole world". 2. Most realistic is the present (until controlled fusion is developped) "Uranium" power plant. Fears are just magic taboo thinking by ignorant masses. They stopped fearing devils, ghosts, the plague, flying saucers, etc. so they have to fear something else, be it the atom, bird-flu, cancer-tomato... How many people died as result of nuclear power accidents, apart from - e.g. - falling down the stairs inside a power plant? Apart from the monkeys-and-hand-grenade Chernobyl disaster - probably zero. Scientist Slocum died when his scredriver slipped while screwing together semi-spheres of Uranium in a lab the early days, still earlier Madam Curie, and???? I worked at a reactor, so I know a little... Three-Mile-Island plant? Apparently not a gram of radioactive stuff got out from the containment. And coal miners are dying by tens or even hundreds each week. This year already some 30 in Poland and in China? how many thousands?? And how about pollution that we all breathe? Oil/gas? How many decades will it last, even with ever newly-found but ever more expensive to pump-out deposits? And inevitable conflicts with Arabs, Russians getting filthy rich but getting deeper and deeper into the trap of being a raw-resorces-country, numbers reducing so there'll be just 70 mil. of them in 60 yrs - OK, but Islamists will get them first and we, the Weestern civilisation will have Iraq/Afganistan from Poland to Bering Straits...