It's not a question to be clean or green the energy, is the question to be sustainable in the front of the immense climate challenge.

Well said, Chavdar!

Well. 

I then hear it this way here: DUE to that we have a serious climate change problem, we intend to buy ourselves some 50-100 years of CO2-reduced power generation via Nuclear Power - after which these resources (Uranium) have become depleted too (we have Uranium resources for 50 to 100 years, if we scale it up). 

Thereafter we now have replaced a CO2 problem which could have been sorted out "simply" by replanting som 4 trillion trees - with an incomprehendibly polluted world, where a 50-folded Nuclear energy sector has at that time then likely also 50-folded the number of serious nuclear disasters.

Furthermore we have replaced the CO2 problem with an insurmountable mountain of radioactive waste - and we have seen - that France, as they have done before - have dumped their lethal, seriously dangerous waste - in others of their former colonies - just like they dumped their dangerous waste in Congo.

Furthermore - we will necessarily see an expansion (50-doubling or more?) of the terrible Uranium mines like they have done for decades - polluting tens of thousands of square kilometers with Uranium dust, poisoning indigenous people with the residuals from the mining - killing innocent people with diseases they don't know, cannot identify, cannot diagnose, cannot treat - cannot run away from. 

So no. No more of this insanity. We are now more educated than in the 1970's. We are also schooled in the mass manipulation done by the likes of Cambridge Analytica. We are insensitive to mad scientists who have been bought to fabricate fake reports on the innocense of the nuclear materials. 

So yes - the question IS whether the energy is clean. 

And as documented elsewhere - solar energy can in full cover the entire consumption of energy as it is now / 159 PetaWatt-hours of energy - from a globally massively distributed solar concentrator array of 186,000 square kilometers - or a little less than 0.2% of the landmass of Earth.

THE SOLUTION to our serious problems with pollution and climate change shall come from decimating the population of humans on Earth. Very doable, if we make use of our collective intelligence instead of - as now - behaving like lemmings - following which ever priestly denomination - or - demoniation - telling us to multiply and populate Earth. I think it is time that we ask these priests - of which ever demonized denomination that we HAVE populated Earth - so which are the new instructions?

The solution to our overpopulation of our losing species Homo Sapiens is indeed not Nuclear Power. 

Have we not spoiled enough? 

What is wrong with renewable energy - the true ones??

One of the two GREEN things about Nuclear Power is the almost green/blue Selenko Radiation emitted by a collapsing nuclear power reactor - if you ever see the Selenko radiation - you know that you are dead.

The other GREEN thing about Nuclear Power is the almost Yellow/Greenish colour of Uranium. 

Sincerely

Rational Intuitive 
David Svarrer

Dear Mark, 

A remarkable piece, of which I largely concur. I am working with one of the maybe 15-20 of the renewable energy makers who are not having the "messy" footprint. Our solution makes use of steel, glass, aluminium, stone, an no rare minerals. There are many similar solutions on the way - largely now driven forward by the climate change and the necessity of the same. 

I think we cannot continue either, unless we address one of the most messy of all our messes - the fact that we put children to this world at a speed making ourselves drown in copies of ourselves. Largely - if not totally - driven by all this world's religions - of all denominations - which rely on scriptures largely similar. 

This particular part has not much to do with energy generation - and then it does... We cannot continue our energy generation in the same messy way we have hitherto done it. I concur with you. 

Sincerely

Rational Intuitive

David Svarrer