If he could aim a narrow beam straight down a (very straight) road, and shield the passenger compartment so the driver and passengers don’t fry, he might get there.
The Smithsonian article (link above) got lots of nuclear proponents commenting, and we have to remember that the life-cycle cost of nuclear power (whether fission or the chimerical fusion) is enormous, and mostly externalized and subsidized for the arsenal’s sake. We have to look at the whole picture, and not shuffle off costs on somebody else and the benefits to ourselves (since most of us are somebody else!)
GENI - the Global Energy Network Institute talks about the integration of the planet’s energy generation and distribution, growing out of Bucky Fuller’s ‘World Game’, so where the power is generated and where it is used are linked, since every rooftop may not be enough for local needs every day and night. Where there’s sun, there may not be wind, and vice versa.
Oh – and hydrogen is not a true energy source, it is at best a bridge fuel. We could wish otherwise, but ethanol has taught some of us that we have to look wider at costs.
If he could aim a narrow beam straight down a (very straight) road, and shield the passenger compartment so the driver and passengers don’t fry, he might get there.
The Smithsonian article (link above) got lots of nuclear proponents commenting, and we have to remember that the life-cycle cost of nuclear power (whether fission or the chimerical fusion) is enormous, and mostly externalized and subsidized for the arsenal’s sake. We have to look at the whole picture, and not shuffle off costs on somebody else and the benefits to ourselves (since most of us are somebody else!)
GENI - the Global Energy Network Institute talks about the integration of the planet’s energy generation and distribution, growing out of Bucky Fuller’s ‘World Game’, so where the power is generated and where it is used are linked, since every rooftop may not be enough for local needs every day and night. Where there’s sun, there may not be wind, and vice versa.
Oh – and hydrogen is not a true energy source, it is at best a bridge fuel. We could wish otherwise, but ethanol has taught some of us that we have to look wider at costs.