We Don't Need Nuclear Power. By Arjun Makhijani, Nature Reports, October 2, 2008. "The notion that nuclear power is necessary to address climate change does not reflect a close examination of the realities of the marketplace or rapid new developments in solar energy, wind energy and energy storage technologies. Indeed, current cost trends indicate that new nuclear power plants are likely to be economically obsolete even before the first new ones come online in the United States. Relying mainly on large power plants in a centralized grid today is the electrical equivalent of depending on punch cards and mainframe computers -- clunky, costly, risky, inefficient and unnecessary. The age of laptops and the Internet offers the opportunity of solving the climate crisis by moving to a world of smart, secure, distributed, efficient and fully renewable grids. For the sake of environmental health, global security and the economy, we should seize the moment and get it done."
2008-10-03
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