Every nuclear explosion since 1945

[Autumnlicious]

Solar panels are too expensive, difficult, and unreliable.

Absolute BULLSHIT.

Solar panels are quite reliable. Why do you think they're fucking used IN SPACE?

Expensive and difficult, yes. However, expensive has been falling like a rock due to Chinese photovoltaic manufacturing (that's what killed Solyndra before it could start -- idiots thought the Chinese silicon shortage would last for years, China thought otherwise). Difficulty is a relative concept -- Elon Musk's SolarCity is yet another entrant to an increasingly crowded field of "make it easy" one stop solar shops.

Wind farms require way too much space and are unreliable.

You like the term 'unreliable' a lot. I do not think it means what you think it means. We'll need to qualify that.

Unreliable as in power generation? It depends on aspects of the location -- South Point in Hawaii, for example, has a near constant power output for it's collection of turbines because the wind never stops there. In fact, the turbines are in more danger of spinning too fast (which would stress the drive shaft and fracture, creating an impromptu frag grenade) and have to be damped/replaced with carbon fiber.

Way too much space -- indeed. But then again, the power needs of a location matter. A local power source and short transmission lines gives you much more bang for your buck than any amount of high voltage, long distance transmission lines ever will give from however powerful your distant power plant is (you know, due to losses, maintenance costs, etc)...


So wind does fit some niche areas well -- we do have certain areas that might do well to be exploited as wind farms (because there's nothing else there). Would you be against such a solution? It makes little sense to rely entirely on one and only one type of power generation when you have the world of motion at your finger tips.

Hydro-electric plants require specific geological characteristics and are expensive.

Oh pul-eeze. Now this has gone stupid. You're just arbitrarily targeting every alternative energy source out of spite.

"Require specific geological characteristics"???

Nigga, that is a FUCKING DAM. Of course if fucking "require specific geological characteristics"! While we're at it, water is wet and Microsoft is stupid.

If the best you can argue that "X is bad because it needs something that is endemic to the definition of X", you've messed up.

And you know what we could do with all that nuclear waste? BURY IT IN THE FUCKING DESERT.

We tried to do that. In Nevada. Remember?

The Nevadans HATED it.

The project is widely opposed in Nevada and is a hotly debated national topic. A two-thirds majority of Nevadans feel it is unfair for their state to have to store nuclear waste when there are no nuclear power plants in Nevada.[26] Many Nevadans' opposition stemmed from the so-called "Screw Nevada Bill," the 1987 legislation halting study of Hanford and Texas as potential sites for the waste before conclusions could be met.[26] However, the local county in which the proposed facility is located, Nye County, supports the development of the repository.

Worse comes to worst? Load the fucking plutonium onto a massive rocket ship and launch it into deep space whenever you need to get rid of it in a pinch. Or better yet the sun. Problem fucking solved.

You do know that the HEAVIER the object, that HARDER it is to launch. As in "magnitudes more expensive and difficult".

Problem "solved" indeed.

Might as well be taking about stepping onto my exotic matter powered Alcubierre drive vessel and warping off to Alpha Centauri!