But is he willing to live next to a nuclear power plant or a nuclear waste storage facility?
But if you want to put it in an industrial area a few blocks away, sure, I'm good with it. I'm not sure we have a great source of cooling water here, though, except up in the hills which is really not a wonderful siting for a nuclear plant.
> And here’s a little story. I grew up within a few miles of Britain’s first, and largest, nuclear power plant.
What was the point you were trying to make?
With regard to powering our economies, I think we should just use a lot less energy. Turn the lights off, turn down the aircon, shut down the malls and find better ways to do things.
We'll have to pay the true cost of consuming the products they produce.
Update: I didn't do it very well, but what I wanted to say was that nobody runs their home like a shopping mall. Thousands of lights blasting, air so cold you have to put a jumper on in summer, and doors wide open to let the cold out. There is a lot of waste in the commercial world that I think we should fix before we freak out that there is not enough energy.
But if that was the case it would be a safer option. Probably. Do they explode?