Tuesday, October 7, 2008

The future of NASCAR:

As the fans join in a full-throated cheer, 43 of the world's best drivers reach down and press a button. What follows is unprecedented: pin-dropping silence, save for 43 small clicks.

With any luck, the electricity will come from clean, safe, efficient nuclear power.

2 comments:

  1. Interesting article on Nuclear power.

    I'm not sure where to stand on the debate. I do beleive that it's safe enough, and that when done properly can work well (see France for more detail).

    But there is a problem... if we switched to all nuclear we'd run out of Uranium pretty quickly... at least I've read so.

    Likely the best thing will be a combination of nuclear, solar (wind, wave et. al), biomass and gains in efficiency with transportation and buildings. And nuclear fusion if we can ever get that...

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  2. I hear fusion will be here in about 15 years...

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