Your Questions About Sustainable Energy Technologies

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Nuclear energy is not “cold”, I am not sure what you meant by that. The whole principle of how muclear energy is used to generate electrcity relies on the fact that it gives off a lot of heat.

It is also not too clean either. The depleted nuclear waste posses a problem of where to dispose of it. It will stay radio active for hundreds of thousands of years, so whereever you put it it needs to be out of the way and secure. Right now, the government is planning to store the stock piles of nuclear waste deep underground under Yucca Mountain (in Nevada I think), but there is a lot of debate over this.

As for sustainable, perhaps not in the long run. There is only so much fissionable material on Earth, it will run out eventually just like fossil fuels. A more long term nuclear energy sourse would rely on fusion, not fission, but this has yet to be practical.

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How about like Drilling at Anwr and other US points and Build more Refineries ( the real Bottle neck in this Oil rich world) The problem with renewable (soundbite name) is it is not well though out. Like the Corn Idea! A gallon of Corn ethonol gives you Worse Milage meaning More Pollution and less efficiancy. Hydrogen is a decade away at best and here is the Big Problem. Like in the 70’s ( according to Dad) solar and other sources were Moving along due to High gas prices and as soon as they started to make in roads Oil went down enough to make them too expensive. SO here we go again we come up with a trillion dollar Hyrdogen answer and OPEC reduces oil to 10 cents a gallon and everybody runs! We need to let the Market drive it or we will play this game forever LAWS ( and Politico’s) cannot do it.