The Thinker usually runs better articles, this one mixes crap and opinion with little substantation of anything. All energy is solar, essentially, it’s a matter of what form we wish to harvest it in - dead dinosaurs that made coal and oil, the sun-driven water cycle that drives hydro plants and creates weather (wind), from nuclear elements created in the big bang, or directly from sunlight. We’re at the beginning of the S-curve when it comes to directly converting solar radiation into electricity or heat, with time the economics of this will improve as they all do. But I agree with you that nuclear is an important and necessary option that we need to exploit.
Heard during a local newscast (on oil and BP):
One of the mysteries oil scientists can't explain is when a well is pumped dry (not economical to continue to pump) and then capped: if you come back 10-15 years later the well is full again.”
Add that to the 1.35 trillion barrel the US already has in the ground and it will be a very big number...
LMAO!
it’s a matter of what form we wish to harvest it in - dead dinosaurs that made coal and oil, <<<
Would you give me # of dinosaurs?...YIPOS!
The THINKER! huh?...Roll over and play dead!..unless you want to defend that position.......*G*
Fair points, all our energy comes from elsewhere. No argument here.
We need to develop nuclear energy using Thorium technology:
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/page2/thorium-fuel-for-nuclear-energy
The economics of solar have been improving...for eons.
Petroleum, coal and nuclear make more sense for the next 100 years.
Solar is a rich libs boondoggle.