View From the Bushes

I decided to do the next adventure in the Anyaka series as the next adventure (yes, it's redundant but I'm too lazy to fix it). Right now I'm shooting for the 19th of June, though that could change, possibly even move forward -- we'll have to see how time consuming this week's local sci-fi convention is, combined with the family reunion the weekend after that. One of the problems I need to get on immediately is to update the rest of the website. Much of it is incorrect or out of date (saying I publish three adventures a month at this point is not a good thing). My plan is to be done with that by tomorrow night. But that's enough DK news for now, what I want to spend the rest of my time talking about is nuclear power.

One of the leading green gurus has said that " Global warming is now advancing so swiftly that only a massive expansion of nuclear power as the world's main energy source can prevent it overwhelming civilisation." Whether or not you buy the global warming argument, this is still very interesting. Renewable energy accounts for only 2% of the energy currently generated and Lovelock (the green guru) argues that there is no way that renewable energy can expand enough to take over from fossil fuel, and thus he argues that nuclear power is the only hope.

A complete discussion of the merits (and disadvantages of nuclear power) is obviously beyond the scope of my meager blog, but the numbers don't lie. Unless you are convinced (despite all evidence) that there will be a cataclysmic decline in energy consumption from unheard of and nearly insane levels of conservation (without a corresponding implosion of the global economy) then there's just no way that renewable energy can foot the bill. At that point, it largely comes down to a discussion of fossil fuel vs. nuclear and in that limited arena I think nuclear wins. Particularly if we had spent the last 20-30 years improving it rather than trying to regulate it out of existence.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross