The coming financial crisis

Diomedes · March 29, 2009, 09:34:10 AM

Not to mention the damn things run on what amounts to fossil fuel. There's only so much of the stuff in the ground to extract and refine.

Nuclear power is not the way to go.

Wind, solar and tidal power...combined with drastically improved efficiency in buildings and machines and power delivery grids...this is how we'll survive the end of oil and climate change, if we do.

rjs246 · March 29, 2009, 10:10:34 AM

Ignoring the role that nuclear can play in bridging that gap is laughable.

Diomedes · March 29, 2009, 10:24:37 AM

It's simply not necessary to bridge the gap. We have plenty enough oil, natural gas, and coal to bridge the gap, assuming we get serious about it.

Improved efficiency and reduction of waste alone would make a huge dent, and we can do that immediately.

Rome · March 29, 2009, 10:25:57 AM

Quote from: rjs246 on March 29, 2009, 10:10:34 AM
Ignoring the role that nuclear can play in bridging that gap is laughable.

Your face is laughable!

Rome · March 29, 2009, 10:39:14 AM

The reason rjs is so high on nuclear power is because of the potential for accidents to create zombies.

rjs246 · March 29, 2009, 10:41:00 AM

I really wish you'd stop exposing my ulterior motives. Ass.

Phanatic · March 29, 2009, 10:50:12 AM

Nuclear power is an inevitable part of our future. Entire European countries are run on Nuke power. Bring on the zombie apocalypse!

ATV · March 29, 2009, 02:46:52 PM

IMO nuclear power is a better option than most, but something a distant relative of mine pointed out is that every dollar that is invested in nuclear is one more dollar that's not being invested in solar, wind, etc.

Rome · March 29, 2009, 04:06:18 PM

Quote from: rjs246 on March 29, 2009, 10:41:00 AM
I really wish you'd stop exposing my ulterior motives. Ass.

lolerkins

Phanatic · March 29, 2009, 07:04:25 PM

Quote from: ATV on March 29, 2009, 02:46:52 PM
IMO nuclear power is a better option than most, but something a distant relative of mine pointed out is that every dollar that is invested in nuclear is one more dollar that's not being invested in solar, wind, etc.

Aw come on, if this financial crises has shown us anything it's that money can be printed as needed to bail out or spend money on whatever!

Seabiscuit36 · March 29, 2009, 07:27:16 PM

I'm all for Nuclear power, and i grew up next door to a Nuke plant with one of the worst records

PoopyfaceMcGee · March 29, 2009, 08:00:55 PM

Isn't it nuc-U-ler?

General_Failure · March 29, 2009, 09:05:17 PM

I'll nuke your ler!

ATV · March 30, 2009, 12:27:15 AM

Obama to Wagoner: Get the farg out...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20625.html

rjs246 · March 30, 2009, 03:11:29 PM

Bloomberg

QuoteThere's no doubt the world that Reagan envisioned didn't work out. The "Washington Consensus" of free markets, small government and unfettered globalization that characterized the 1990s also is over. China knows it, and it's speaking out more confidently -- and rightly so.

Capitalism isn't dead; it lost its way. Expect a more sensible version than the one that just crashed in which capital flows freely and regulations see that markets don't go off the rails. As perverse as it sounds, a touch of socialism is needed to resuscitate capitalism.