In his Current View, Jerry Pournelle (a science fiction writer I still hold in high esteem) says we should be spending large sums of money building nuclear fission power plants to reduce our dependence on foreign petroleum.
I completely agree. There is at present no good substitute for petroleum as a power source for transportation, and using it for power generation is borderline stupid. Building non-petroleum power plants will extend the supply for transport use.
I also think that any enviromentalists who try to impede the construction of modern nuclear power plants (which are much safer than the old breeder designs) by illegal actions such as blockading work sites or sabotage should be jailed, or preferably, shot.
Posted on January 27, 2005 08:22 PM