I don't like Nuclear weapons or Nuclear Power (Though oil and coal has its serious drawbacks of its own), but unfortunatly like people have said before...when a new technology comes out, you always open a pandoras box and you can't uninvent things. So if we don't basically keep them around, some person will and they will either threaten everyone at missle point or actually use one of them...but the more we have the more dangerous things get. Fairly, it is a no win situation however you look at it.
The Missles aren't the only thing..every submarine sinking or accident of any Nuclear powered military vessel releases the poisons as well.
I like the idea of clean power like solar, though I have not read much of it and I heard that the solar arrays aren't that efficient...of course since the energy industry might have a reason not to make it efficient we can't be entirely sure. I am also in favor of Hydro and Wind power and generally just making the existing methods cleaner and safer.
Unfortunatly for us, the energy industry, like every other industry, is more concerned about the mighty dollar (or if you prefer Yen, Euro, Pound, etc.) and they look at shortages in fuels as a way to increase the price not as a problem but as short term gains.
Like when the Electric lights came out the oil lamp fuel salesman pointed out how it would electrocute you to death, and when the Automobile came out the buggy whip salesman was sure to point out how it was unnatural.
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