(November 24, 2012 at 4:28 pm)Napoléon Wrote:(November 24, 2012 at 12:22 pm)Ryantology Wrote: Solar is the future.
My ass it is.
Why take energy from the sun when you can recreate the reaction which actually powers the fucking thing.
IMO nuclear energy is the future.
Energy from the sun is clean, safe, available to everyone, and virtually infinite in supply. You do not have to mine for it, drill for it, pay for it, store it, refine it, transport it, dispose of dangerous waste, risk environmental disaster if something goes wrong, or fight wars over it.
The earth receives enough energy from the sun, every day, to give us ten thousand times as much total energy as humanity currently requires. It is simply a matter of harnessing it with proper efficiency.
Once the technology matures (and it is doing so, rapidly), solar is a no-brainer. I would support nuclear energy as a backup, or for places in which sunlight is unreliable, but solar will almost certainly become the primary energy source in the coming decades, when solar cells are efficient enough to be commonplace on houses and embedded on panels and windows of cars.
