Just where we’d be energy-wise if assholes like this woman wouldn’t have spent decades protesting the things they now advocate?
The only way to rescue our plug-hungry planet from catastrophic global warming is to embrace nuclear power, and fast.
That’s the argument of Gwyneth Cravens, a novelist, journalist and former nuke protester. Her new book, Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy, is a passionate plea to understand, instead of fear, atomic power. In her book, Cravens is guided Dante-like through the entire life cycle of nuclear power — from mining to production to waste disposal — by one of the world’s foremost experts on risk assessment and nuclear waste.
Her conclusion? Every day spent burning coal for power translates into damaged lungs and ecosystem destruction. If the world wants to keep plugging in big-screen TVs and iPods, it needs a steady source of power. Wind and solar can’t produce the “base-load” (or everyday) steady supply needed, and the only realistic — and safe — alternative is nuclear.
You can read the interview Wired News posted yesterday with her.
Just don’t shake your too much when you listen to her flap stupid pie hole. You might hurt your neck.
As a kid (during the eighties) reading Sci-fi from the fifties and sixties, I was constantly wondering what it would have been like then if we had what they dreamed of decades earlier. Nothing says self-sufficiency like your own neighborhood block reactor. That is why I went into the Nuke Navy. Too bad that it is was not a viable market when I got out.
Nuclear power has always been the best. Anybody who is an activist should be reseaching what the power system really is before coping an attitude about it. Base load power is the only thing that matters. All the nuclear physists like Oppenheimer that invented nuclear power are spinning in their graves at 100,000 rpm every time a usless solar panel or wind turbine is built.
GO NUKES!!! GO NUKES!!! GO NUKES!!!
“All the nuclear physists like Oppenheimer that invented nuclear power are spinning in their graves at 100,000 rpm”
Now if only we could connect them to a generator!
I wish I had thought of that!!