jlt22 wrote:Did:
Being nuclear is probably an ostrich policy,
But how would one do otherwise....
Unfortunately, only nuclear remains, which can produce indefinitely.
Your reasoning demonstrates in an excellent way that there is going to be a break ... in our way of thinking.
1 ° If we put aside fusion - for now (the next 50 years) not perfected - nuclear power is not unlimited: fission needs fuel, heavy metals and ... more or less rare ... The known stock of uranium is hardly more important than that of oil or gas! But nobody says it. Ask about !
Certainly, other elements are "fissile", but by definition, as they are unstable (since they cracked to give other elements), they are not mass on earth!
2 ° Yes, the model that we have known over the past 30 years is no longer sustainable, even less generalizable! So you will have to change, even if for the moment you cannot envisage it "intellectually" and build a world where energy will be much rarer for each inhabitant !!! (it will be necessary to share, under penalty of wars - which has already started at the economic level: open your eyes to the presence of China in Africa where it has "flattened" France in its own "pre-square"!) .. .
3) My point (ostrich policy) was related to the dismantling of power plants. Let's admit, as you do (and you are in the ultra-majority in France), that nuclear power is needed, no other solution. What I am saying is that this electricity is currently sold off, because we do not take into account the treatment of waste (we only reprocess what can be used and store!) And even less the dismantling of power plants (we does not even know how to do it, let alone how much it will cost). So any serious economist would "provision" these charges. AND would charge more for electricity. We were there when we started this thread.
And I repeat what is only an opinion, mine: nuclear, in France, currently, it is the policy of the ostrich ...
And I bitterly regret that so few people try to see clearly, and to push into questioning the economic model that this feeds!
So let's go to disaster, "since we cannot do otherwise" ...
As Einstein said: "I do not understand why man has a brain, the spinal cord would have been enough" (he spoke of the soldiers on the occasion of a parade in line and in step).