| rocketpig said: mid term: Boost the nuclear capabilities of the US while phasing out ancient coal plants. Alongside this, a higher percentage of power from renewable resources should be created every year. goal: phasing out nuclear plants and relying almost entirely on renewable resources. This may not happen for forty or fifty years but without an intelligent (and reasonable) plan put in place NOW, the only change we'll see will be forced, brutal, and very ugly for the population. |
Psst, I let you in in a cool secret: Nuclear resources are even more limited than oil... so building nuclear power plants is an immensely dumb idea (and let's not even talk about nuclear waste). The myth that nuclear power is clean and "freely available" is just that: a myth. (And, as a sidenote, as every engineer will tell you: fission energy is the future! Always was, and always will be..)
The key point in the discussion is what you wrote: "This may not happen for...". As long as every politicians' only goal is to get reelected every few years, we won't see a solution to the energy problem. We get these silly excuses "it is too expensive...", "it takes too much time..", "it will cost jobs..", "blablabla..".
I know that Petrobras is one of the few big oil companies that are actually "on the good side" (I was in a project with Petrobras as a customer for few years).
But back to the topic of climate change: It is very real and can be EASILY observed in Switzerland if you know what to look for (I'm not talking about glaciers although thy are a clear indication).
