On 17 February 2010 21:02, Nick Hocking <[email protected]> wrote: > If S.Aust needs more fresh water then it should be just more impetus to > develop renewable sources of energy to create it, e.g solar wind and better > use of nuclear.
There is always a down side to most "renewables". Solar/wind is too expensive (per watt) and not dependable enough to be used as base load, regardless of any claims by snake oil sales men. While we probably have the land needed for hydro, we lack the water. For base load there is very few options that will provide cheap/reliable power needed, since it will be almost impossible to get people to have peak demands during people generation. So that just leaves coal or nuclear, there is a very safe nuclear option, although they have yet to get the science right to make a borium reactor work, alternatively there is some fairly safe fission options as well, the only major nuclear accident was due to Russian engineering, they should have gotten the Germans to build it and it wouldn't have happened. Oh and if you don't want kids, volunteer to be on a Russian nuclear submarine :) _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
