two volume opus on climate change, Carbon Ideologies, I came to the same conclusion, after years of fretting over nuclear power. He analyzes the major energy sources, and he actually visited Fukushima, and he argues that all of them are pretty bad, but I swear to god, after reading that book I thought, "I'd much, much, much rather take my chances at Fukushima than be drinking tap water in West Virginia or breathing air near a fracking field or coal plant." It wasn't even a close call for me.
Some of these other ideas that sound so exciting, like carbon capture and sequestration, when you read the facts and about the number of machines that would have to be produced, and the "energy cost" of that production, as fantastic as these machines are, it's just not practical. Check out Uninhabitable Earth for the stupefying facts about how many CC&S machines we would have to build every minute for the next fifty years. As thrilling as that technology is (and those machines are beautiful), it's a ludicrous proposition.
Just my opinion.
Although I'm always looking for new and better breakthroughs and possibilities.
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