wind power is perfectly efficient, 40% of scotlands power is soon to come from it. and we are hardly the richest nation either so the cost can't be that dramatic can it for the worlds (second) richest nation (depends how you count it). Nuclear power is still as expensive to set up anyway. brazil did a great job of building the worlds biggest dam and getting 60% of not only it's own but one of it's neighbours power as well. no mean feat at best. what's wrong with the hoover dam? did that before, alright very difficult to do. but a whole lot easier than getting the polar ice caps to refreeze and to stop New York being underwater.

this even shouldn't be about cost, this is about saving the planet and millions of lives. of course greedy american doesn't care about that. nope better to have big bank accounts than to save a few africans eh?

nuclear fusion would not enable people to be able to create nuclear weapons at home. the electricity they get would be the same it is now, not some new fangled radiation electricity. the technology would be there but then again how many terrorists have built nuclear reprocessing plants these days?

nuclear power shouldn't be resorted to, yes it is clean if it is maintianed properly but there is hardly a power station which would fit that category of "always been well maintained" it's not particularly cheap either. energy costs have infact risen than the supposed fall nuclear power was supposed to cause, at the very start people were talking about energy so effiecent it would be free. it never will be, don't believe the claims. it's hardly clean either. waste that lasts for longer than the earth will is hardly clean now is it? yeah we can store it deep enough for it not to be a problem for now. but what about in fifty years? would you be so happy with your house being on top of a site with radiation powerful enough to kill you in a matter of hours and it's half life was a few million years? i wouldn't be best pleased.

but you know in a few years it's all gonna be a good chuckle there ill be living off my wind power electricity (alright the coast is a bit closer now cos "some people" refuse to obey kyoto) and watching on my wind powered tv i'll see the american stock market crash, the price of oil soar, it's land flooded and a energy shortages. at that point i'll sit back and smile and sweetly say "i told you so".

ps can this topic be widened to car and SUV users who also pollute the atmosphere in even greater amounts?