[discostu]

Public opinion does count, but public opinion can be manufactured, tell people how great something is and they'll love it, tell them how bad it is and they'll hate it. The maleability of public opinion is the basis for the entire advertising industry.

I buy that nuclear energy is clean, there really isn't much to buy, just compare the size of a nuclear pile with the quantity of coal or oil used. It's gotta be cleaner just based on the amount of stuff used.

3 whole states, that's a lot of acrage. If we blanketed those in modern nuke plants how much more energy could we produce? Wind power can get there but right now our generating technology just isn't there for it.

[biblewonk]

3 whole states, that's a lot of acrage. If we blanketed those in modern nuke plants how much more energy could we produce? Wind power can get there but right now our generating technology just isn't there for it.

As I stated, the land is not "used up". You can still have cows and desert and wasteland or even corn fields. What more do you want from the technology? The bottom line is cost per kwhr. Earlier comments you have made show that you don't really know this part of the equation.