If our tax dollars had been used to fund solar energy instead of nuclear power, wouldn't we be better off now?
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Consider the hundreds of billions of dollars spent to subsidize the nuclear industry and the hundreds of billions that will have to be spent for all eternity to store the nuclear waste.
What if that money had been spent on the R&D of more efficient photovoltaic cells and a massive program to convert homes and industry to solar power?
Then we wouldn't have depleted uranium.
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Then we wouldn't have depleted uranium.
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Federal Funding created the photovoltaic cell industry, you are just to young to remember.
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Sorry but you're naive. I used to work for a solar company and guess what? An oil company bought it. Oil companies own all of the major solar companies. Why? So they can control it. If the government subsidized the R&D for solar they would be just giving a bunch of money to oil companies. Is that what you want?
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The US spends very little on nuclear energy when compared to other industralized nations, believe it or not.
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Billions spent to subsidize the nuclear industry? We haven't built a nuclear power plant in 30 years.
There is new technology emerging that would use plasma to obliterate spent nuclear rods and waste, and turn it into energy, thus eliminating the storage of nuclear waste.
As for solar, with current technology, it is a very inefficient source, and probably not a very good investment if it hasn't been heavily invested in already.
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maybe, maybe not. the enviro nazi's would come up with some reason we are harming the planet. nuclear is actually a very green technology. if the nimby's would get out of the way of yucca mountain the storage problem would be solved and eventually transmutation technology may actually make the waste non-harmful or even reusable.
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Then we would be putting exponentially more toxins in the air than we currently are due to increased use of coal and oil fired power plants as well as the less efficient nuclear plants…and still, solar and wind power prove much less efficient than nuclear.
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They should be using solar, nuclear, wind mill power and should have been drilling off shore and in the Antarctic if you could get the stupid congress to work together for the good of the country instead of fighting with each other. This should have been done 20 years ago!
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You will go dark real fast.
A smart Green would advocate Nukes for low carbon Footprint. Open Yucca Mountain and store the waste there. No one lives there. Develop Clean coal, drill for more oil on our land and shores. Build refineries so that we may convert clean coal, ethanol, and petroleum into a hybrid fuel better than ethanol. Build Green plants also, but the real goal is to stop importing energy and make it here, Solar power is not a cure all and neither is wind.
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No. Less than every 15 years, solars cells need to be changed due to degradation (solar cells wear out over time).
Also, the U.S. would need to build dozens of power plants just to make the solar cells. New factories would need to built to make the cells and energy needs to be used to create the solar cells.
The cheapest and cleanest form of energy is nuclear energy. Theoretically, energy from nuclear power plants can be sold for as little as 7 cents per kilowatt.
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