The Only Practical Non-Carbon Power Source
If you look realistically at how the electricity supply works to deliver the industrial and consumer needs of modern producing societies, they depend on 24/7 electricity for cities, factories, homes, etc. Our electricity generation/delivery system is set up to meet that demand. Solar and wind, while clean energy, are by nature intermittent generators of power. Subsidize them all you want, fund research and improve their efficiency to 100%, use taxpayer money to cover entire states with windmills and solar panels, but its all for naught: when the sun goes down and the wind stops blowing you have no electricity. One of the large power co-operatives puts it this way: If you build 100 megawatts of wind you need to build 100 megawatts of backup generation for periods when the wind isnt blowing.
If the goal is carbon reduction, the only practical solution for electricity generation is nuclear. China, India, Russia, South Korea, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and a host of other countries have started to migrate away from fossil fuels toward nuclear. There are more than 200 new nuclear power plants moving through the permitting-design-construction pipeline worldwide as we speak. Sure they are expensive to build, but what you'll get in return is 60 to 80 years of reliable, cheap, non-carbon emitting baseload electricity, with fuel costs being a negligible part of the equation.
