Comments by "Craxin01" (@Craxin01) on "Should the Left Accept Nuclear Power?" video.

  1. Nuclear energy, properly maintained, is very clean. We need to be using more, especially over dirty coal (no such thing as clean coal) and non-renewable fossil fuels. While natural gas burns clean, the gas itself is horribly polluting if\when it gets out into the environment and is more of a greenhouse gas than even carbon dioxide. Bioreactors using non-fossil gas (decomposing materials) is clean and gets both the gas and organic compost (great fertilizer). Solar is fine, but it's not going to replace other energy production methods until it get more efficient and\or we develop high end storage of energy. Hydroelectric trades clean waterflow for electricity by damming it up, which causes its own environmental disasters. Geothermal is VERY location specific. As for nuclear being a "stopgap," that's foolishness. It's clean, efficient, and easy to produce for very long term. Until we can either produce higher efficiency solar (75% or above) or develop cold fusion, we're better off using renewables as a stopgap and using more nuclear.
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