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In reply to the discussion: New Leader Of UK's Green Party: Nuclear Power Is The Betamax Of The Energy World [View all]Confusious
(8,317 posts)electricity -> electron tube -> radio -> television -> computers
electron tube -> transistors -> integrated circuit -> computers -> networks -> Internet
I suppose you're talking about nuclear power.
Well dealing with nuclear power has given us insight into the effects of radiation.
The short list: Space flight, smoke detectors, xrays, measurement devices, nuclear medicine, sterilization, Quality Control all rely on that insight.
It's never as clean cut as some Luddites would like to make it.
If they every get fusion working, that experience will be valuable. We will need to understand how to deal with radiation to tap unlimited amounts of clean power that it will provide.
Where do you think we should have stopped? the transistor? the electron tube?
Which technologies would you pick out to stop right now? How about stem cell research?