[Porsche-O-Phile]

I'm all for nuclear as a 50-100 year solution. If we can reprocess spent fuel and cut the end waste product quantities down, then so much the better (I'm not a nuclear engineer so I don't fully understand how the reprocessing works and what the ratios of "X" spent fuel to "Y" unusuable waste, plutonium or whatever would be - I'd have to research it or learn more).

The point is there's only so much uranium ore in the earth in the same way there's only so much oil. Eventually it becomes inefficient and unproductive to rely on these sorts of non-renewable resources. Maybe there's enough to last thousands of years - again I don't know. But I'm fairly sure that nuclear power isn't the "holy grail" of endless clean power that we're looking for - at least not fission. Maybe fusion can/will be if we can figure out how to harness and control it reliably.

Thinking "big picture" here for a moment - the greatest evil that confronts mankind is poverty. It is the origination point for manifestations of human greed, inequality, manipulation, war, violence, exploitation, etc. Anything that can be done to empower people to get out of poverty will help us advance as a species and will increase the chances of human survival long-term by minimizing the chance that we will destroy ourselves in some silly conflict over resources, religion or ideology. Allowing wind or solar farms or hydro plants (or in the future, tidal or fusion plants) to be built in remote/poor areas will help lift those people out of poverty and give them something the rest of the world wants/needs. An exportable good. And such the seeds for a sustanable future of humanity can be sown.

If OTOH we persist in trying to jealously guard these things and hide behind excuses to keep them stuffed in boxes for the benefit of a few wealthy corporate interests, we are ALL the losers as instability, inequality and conflict are the inevitable results.

I'm NOT saying "give these things to the poor countries". I'm saying, "if the concern is the real estate required to make them viable, let's let those countries decide if maybe this is an opportunity to lift themselves out, for the benefit of all.

For obvious reasons this can't be done with nuclear. It certainly CAN be done with more sustainable/renewable sources.