And that gets us to the central problem of our energy policy.
Utilities are moving towards a short-term thinking model where they install natural gas turbine with a low capital cost and use electricity deregulation to offload the risk of volatile natural gas prices to the consumer. "Renewables" are also driven by short-term motives: making a quick buck by exploiting government subsidies.
Nuclear energy can give us a sustainable energy source the thousand-year timescale (energy-wise, breeders can certainly consume seawater U238 profitably,) but we need to be thinking on the timescale of decades, not the next quarter, to get there.
Utilities are moving towards a short-term thinking model where they install natural gas turbine with a low capital cost and use electricity deregulation to offload the risk of volatile natural gas prices to the consumer. "Renewables" are also driven by short-term motives: making a quick buck by exploiting government subsidies.
Nuclear energy can give us a sustainable energy source the thousand-year timescale (energy-wise, breeders can certainly consume seawater U238 profitably,) but we need to be thinking on the timescale of decades, not the next quarter, to get there.