Reply to nuclear advocates on "The Energy Blog".

http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2006/11/vhtr_reactor_pu.html#comment-24989138

Well Brian, you caught me.  I'm really hoping the 10 to 20 year delay to prove nuclear power safe and cost effective and able to neutralize it's own waste is a long enough time period for renewables to win.

Thus my compromise proposal.

Wind is already proven safe and cost effective.  And that old saw..."We will be lucky to see solar and wind contributing 10% of our power by 2021'..that since renewables are a small part of the energy market now, they can't expand quickly.  Well that's pure bunk.

The same kind of bunk that buggy whip manufacturers used to appease their shareholders at the advent of the horseless carriage. 

Only 1% of people use horselerss carriages, therefore buggy whip sales will continue to be strong well into the second half of the 20th century!

Equals..

Invest in nuclear and fossil power now!!  Renewables are only a tiny portion of the market.

In the case of nuclear it is like the buggy whippers figured they could maybe build carriages the horses ride inside of on treadmills.   In order to keep buggy whip sales going.  And got billions in corporate welfare (stolen from taxpayers) to develop!

Nuclear fuel, fossil fuel.  It's still fuel, with plenty of deadly dangerous pollution, climate disaster producing greenhouse gases, and toxic waste.

Abandon your buggy whips, get onto the renewable power bandwagon, the "horseless carriage" of this energy re-evolution.