Reply #15: I saw the piece as "pick-your-poison".

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The French seemed to have good safe use of nuclear power. Is it perfect? Of course not, it has its drawbacks. Some of them are pretty substantial.

There are a great deal of good points made in this thread. But there is no one magic bullet in doing something to reduce/eliminate carbon emissions. I do not think we should shut the door on nuclear power. There are drawbacks to just about every form of energy generation.

You could turn North and South Dakota into a supergiant windfarm and theoretically generate all the power you need. The problems is getting that power to where its needed on the coasts. You loose power when you send electric current over long distances. Sorry, we don't have room temp superconductive transmission lines yet.

Geothermal is another great solution. But where are the suitable sites in relation to where the power is needed? How many good sites are there in this country?

Solar-I think PV solar has great potential it will just take time to get there.

I just believe that with the specter of global climate change hovering over us and our future, no possible solution should be dismissed. I do think that nuclear power will be, at least in some way, part of that solution.