China opens its 50th nuclear reactor.

[mr_lebowski]

8. I share general sentiments here, but this part ...

"If one looks around, one can see that the majority of people on this planet favor tearing the shit out pristine wilderness to put through roads to service wind turbines that will be landfill in 20 years."

Who, exactly, have you talked to that favors tearing up pristine wilderness to put in wind turbines?

Pretty sure there's plenty of other land (and offshore) that can be leveraged before we go 'tearing' up, I dunno, ANWR ... to put them there.

Also, roads in pristine wilderness can be created without that much havoc being wreaked. We have fire roads all over our wilderness areas, and generally they're an overall 'good thing'. Just have to be judicious, and not use them THAT much. Having more electric vehicles will help lower the impact of using them as well.