Reply #18: I don't think any of the "pro nulear" gang...

[Dead_Parrot]

...believe we should be getting all our energy from nuclear power, although that would actually be an option. all of us welcome developments in geothermal, wind, wave - even solar: If you look at the whole life-cycle of PV it's actually quite "dirty", but solar thermal is quite nice. And hydro, although I'm probably the only one who gets over-exited about large-scale hydro like Itaipu or the Three Gorges - I figure a little a destruction in a confined space is better than a lot of destruction over the whole planet.

What we do think, in general, is that we shouldn't be waiting around until we can tackle the problem without nuclear. Greenpeace, for instance, seem to think that reducing the use of fossil fuels by about 50% over the next 40 years is somehow going to make a meaningful difference, even though we'd still be producing gigatons of carbon dioxide year after year. Me, I disagree.

If there's a way of ditching fossil fuels in a reasonable time-frame without using nuclear power, we'd all be up for it. Problem is, nobody has come up with one.