Stem Carbon Dioxide Output Through Nuclear

Uranium (Nuclear Minerals) / Nuclear Power - Economics, Design, & Industry

Date posted: 02/02/15

Clint Wolfe reports about a startling article he read the other day. It was startling because it was about a decision made by Google to exit renewable energy research and development. Amid struggles of renewable energy projects such as wind and solar, nuclear power emerges as a sound option. Amid struggles of renewable energy projects such as wind and solar, nuclear power emerges as a sound option. The company that invested billions of dollars in renewable energy projects such as wind and solar power announced that its scientists had concluded that it was not possible to power a data center that was to be a public demonstration of the success of its solar energy program. Google discovered what those who had gone before it had previously discovered that intermittent wind and solar power cannot support high-density energy applications. Google still supports niche applications of wind and solar, but its R&D program, by its own analysis, was not bold enough and not transformational enough to defend against increasing levels of carbon dioxide in atmosphere. After factoring in the most optimistic projections of the growth of renewable energy in Earth energy supply, Google models still projected exponential increases in carbon dioxide levels because of the increased use of coal. If that surprises you, consider that there are about 3 billion people of the 7 billion people in the world today without electricity. The truth is that we have new designs for nuclear power plants and small modular reactors that could be built on an expedited basis to meet this climate challenge while we continue to look for even better answers. Incredibly, opponents of invoking a nuclear solution for these issues cite safety concerns. Nonsense! The choice before us is between emission-free technology that has been used for 60 years in this country without a fatality or continue down our current path that causes 7 million premature deaths a year worldwide and threatens our planet.