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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup
Support a massive push into developing nuclear power.
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I used to believe as many did and many still do, that all we really needed was workable nuclear fusion (not fission) and all our energy worries would be over.
Now I think that's a pipe dream, at least in our lifetimes. If fusion ever works at all it will be so expensive to create a plant that it will leave us right back at the hands of big corporations who will set the price per/kilowatt as they see fit.
They technology I'm banking on is fuel cells powered by Hydrogen created from solar cells on
my roof. Right now all the pieces are in place to use this technology to create all the energy I need to run my house and cars except one. The solar cells that use light energy to efficiency separate hydrogen out of water. Right now that technology works, but it's only effective in the ultraviolet range of light. As soon as that range can be moved down to visible light (where 90% of the suns energy is) then we are in business. There is some promising research in that area going on right now.