Comments on: Japan Is Now Running on 0% Nuclear Power. That Means Using More Fossil Fuels.

By: Geack

Geack — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:56:53 +0000

@ 1. Alejandra,
How much of our energy usage do you think the developed world can give up? Modern industrialized economies provide such a radically better standard of living for the vast majority of people that it’s simply impossible to expect us to give it up completely. Even if we somehow cut our energy use by 50% per capita, the dramatic increases in energy use as the people of the developing world claim the benefits of modern life will overwhelm the improvement. Efficiency and usage reduction are necessary, but far from sufficient. Better sources of power are an absolute necessity moving forward.

By: Kaviani

Kaviani — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:47:05 +0000

Idiot Iain apparently has never heard of relevance or commodity manipulation.

By: Dr. G. Arena

Dr. G. Arena — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:53:15 +0000

Thorium reactors wuld be lower cost than any other solution and really safe.

By: Iain

Iain — Wed, 09 May 2012 05:40:32 +0000

But Iran with ‘all the oil in the world’ is aggressively pursuing nuclear power. Just for peaceful purposes of course.

By: Alejandra

Alejandra — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:35:25 +0000

The problem is not wheter we use nuclear power or fossil fuels. The question should be how do we stop requiring the ammount of energy we need right now, how do we change our lifestyles. I dont think the bad news is that Japan is going to start burning more fossil fuels, rather it is that Japan (and the world) hasnt changed their minds about energy.