We need to build more nuclear power plants and soon.
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Originally Posted by pip08456
So at present renewable energy sources, solar or wind, cannot supply our full energy needs and to ensure that we still have nuclear and gas powered power generating stations.
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Solar especially is making great gains though. It's much more efficient than it was 10, 5 years ago. I think the promise for solar as well is having it spread out more. Rooftops of homes with excess power being sold back to the grid (and taken off your energy bill) etc.
As well as building big new sources of power I think we shouldn't underestimate the small improvements we can make by making all devices more energy efficient and recapturing wasted energy in cars, on roads, from the sun and so on.
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Objections to nuclear will be raised not least due to what happened at Chernobyl and in Japan.
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Japan is a good argument for nuclear power IMO. That was a plant with older technology which got hit by quite a lot of things nature can throw at you, earthquakes and tsunamis, and the damage whilst bad wasn't a catastrophe. We can build safer ones now that won't be hit by such things.