On the solar front

Coincidentally, a TV news report last night talked about the pending
return of the nuclear power industry in the US — where no plants have
been ordered in 25 years — despite the still unresolved issues of the
nuclear fuel cycle, waste management, decommissioning of plants (some
now approaching 60 years old). “This may be our only alternative to
oil,” someone actually said. Hmmm… have they looked up recently? (Dr. Don Aitken, senior scientist for Union of Concerned Scientists, observed that Earth’s daily solar flux exceeds our current global energy budget by a factor of only…17,000!

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