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There is this rather unfortunate problem of energy talks going political as governments have leveraged energy creation as a sticking campaign point. For example see: Anti-Nuclear movements or the people against coal. As GR said, this is why the energy thread is over at Political.
It's rather a misguided viewpoint and has the rather unfortunate effect of reducing research budgets for energy generation. At the very least fluctuating wildly between alternatives in time with the political zeitgeist. Renewable energy has grown in leaps and bounds but there is still a credible case to be made for the power generation through nuclear. Personally, I would like for development in it to advance as much as possible before we actually need nuclear as an alternative, especially with ever-increasing efforts to move into carbon-neutral energy (society?).
It's rather a misguided viewpoint and has the rather unfortunate effect of reducing research budgets for energy generation. At the very least fluctuating wildly between alternatives in time with the political zeitgeist. Renewable energy has grown in leaps and bounds but there is still a credible case to be made for the power generation through nuclear. Personally, I would like for development in it to advance as much as possible before we actually need nuclear as an alternative, especially with ever-increasing efforts to move into carbon-neutral energy (society?).