Reply #27: I accept much of what you say,

[50000feet]

Kristopher. I disagree that the technologies are binary---they may be so practically, the way things have gone, but that's nothing intrinsic to the technologies themselves. It's just the way power works. More-power-me-good, etc.

I don't personally buy the climate change predictions I normally hear, which verge on the apocalyptic (everybody's got an apocalypse to sell, ever noticed?). So I don't agree that nuclear is needed to avoid climate problems.

I can't really comment on whether alternatives are in a place to compete pricewise with nuclear. My educated sense is they now cannot, but could with sufficient development. Nor am I convinced alternatives are sufficiently scalable to eliminate carbon and mineral energy sources. I do think carbon-burning is archaic. The future is ours to develop and have if but for a little political will.