The Real McCain

[Kracka]

Originally Posted by tpunx99GSX

What im saying is there are alternate forms of energy that must be explored that can easily power our society with no harmful effects to our envoirnment or people.

Do you have any idea how many huge solar/wind fields it would take to create the same amount of power as one nuclear plant?

[tpunx99GSX]

Originally Posted by Kracka

Do you have any idea how many huge solar/wind fields it would take to create the same amount of power as one nuclear plant?

Currently yes you are correct it would take a lot. but with the advancement of technology, more Green solutions such as wind and solor are going to become a great contender to Nuclear energy.
Please read this and it will clue you in.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2006/682/7930
http://www.naturestudy.org/pdf/Solar...rWindPower.pdf
"The estimated recoverable energy from solar energy is about 1,000 times the present human global energy consumption of 10TW per year. Ten weeks of solar energy is roughly equivalent to the energy stored in all known reserves of coal, oil and natural gas on earth. Solor energy is absorbed at Earths surface at an average rate of 120,000 TW, which is 10,000 times the global demand for energy"
This was quoted from the PDF link. It was produced in 2001. Imagine how much more efficient energy production is now. Without the need to decommission nuclear plants and create the radioactive waste. As well as its much more cost efficient.