What is so wrong with advancing nuclear energy for ourselves and tell these oil producing countries to take a hike?

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Safely disposing of the waste products... I believe in global warming and in environmentalism and in the green movement and not drilling in Anwar and all those things. But I am also a realist and think that we need to follow several approaches simultaneously to get us out of this dependency. I think we do need to built a large number of nuclear plants.

France gets an extremely large proportion of their energy from them. The technology has advanced a long way from Chernobyl or Three Mile Island. But the waste disposal is still a big problem -- finding a way (and a place) to dump all the new radioactive waste is the difficulty -- but if we want to eat and get to work, some sacrifices have to be made and this problem resolved.

I think we also need to pursue other methods such as limited off-shore drilling, shale oil, and coal to oil conversion. At the same time, we need to massively subsidize and encourage use of the various forms of alternative, renewable energies. Not just lip service but real money and real emphasis on wind, tidal, hydro, solar cell -- esp with the application of nanotechnologies, passive solar, cellulosic ethanol, hydrogen and all the other possible forms.

Of course, the premium on oil is doing much of this for us. Habits have to change as well. Transportation habits are already changing rapidly but we also need to start thinking about life style changes that will help us make the switch from fossil fuels to renewable fuels.

Of course, here again, just the cost of oil will bring this about. Small cars are already in and people are already starting a movement back toward their jobs, conferencing and doing work remotely and similar changes. We cannot, in the interests of our own security, permit to become totally dependent on foreign sources of oil, many of them pretty unfriendly.It is painful now but it will also give us the political will to break our current dependency, both personally and nationally.

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1 Nothing, except we would no longer have enough to eat.

Nothing, except we would no longer have enough to eat.

2 explain what you mean. I don't understand.

3 The end of cheap oil doesn’t just impact the cost and practicality of importing our food from far away. Fewer people realize that modern commercial agriculture relies on petrochemicals as the raw material from which synthetic fertilizers are made. “In the United States, 400 gallons of oil equivalents are expended annually to feed each American” (this is quoted from the site I linked below).

Of those 400 gallons, 31% is used to synthesize fertilizer, while only 16% is used for transport. Since we have relied for so long on synthetic fertilizers to boost the production of crops, the farmed-out soils have very little microbe activity left, and are often quite stripped of the nutrients that would support crop growth without supplements. Without long-term reinvestment into biological renewal of conventional cropland, they will be far less useful when inorganic fertilizer becomes too expensive.

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The end of cheap oil doesn’t just impact the cost and practicality of importing our food from far away. Fewer people realize that modern commercial agriculture relies on petrochemicals as the raw material from which synthetic fertilizers are made. “In the United States, 400 gallons of oil equivalents are expended annually to feed each American” (this is quoted from the site I linked below).

Of those 400 gallons, 31% is used to synthesize fertilizer, while only 16% is used for transport. Since we have relied for so long on synthetic fertilizers to boost the production of crops, the farmed-out soils have very little microbe activity left, and are often quite stripped of the nutrients that would support crop growth without supplements. Without long-term reinvestment into biological renewal of conventional cropland, they will be far less useful when inorganic fertilizer becomes too expensive.

fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100303_ea....

4 And oh yeah. While nukes will take care of electricity, I (and probably most other poor and working class people) don't have the cash resources to buy a brand new electric car right now.

And oh yeah. While nukes will take care of electricity, I (and probably most other poor and working class people) don't have the cash resources to buy a brand new electric car right now.

Cogeneration of energy could include nuclear energy producing electricity and hot steam into the tar sands yielding oil.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.