Two days ago, President Barack Obama made his first state of the union address. Of course, I was excited to hear him talk about his plans for helping our country “go green!”
The President talked about creating “clean energy jobs” (cool!) and passing a “comprehensive energy and climate bill” (very cool!) He then talked about the importance of “clean nuclear power plants,” “oil and gas development,” “advanced biofuels” and “clean coal technologies.”What is all that stuff? None of it sounds very green to me! Mr. Obama didn’t talk about solar, wind or geothermal power—the cleanest known energy technologies of today!
For the next few days, I will try to research the energy sources he did mention and provide information about each of them! First up—nuclear energy!
They may be the cleanest technologies, but they're also the least reliable. The most realistic solution we have to the energy crisis is nuclear power. It's clean, it's safe, and (most importantly) it's cheap.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment! Yes, it's true that solar and wind may be unreliable for all communities because wind and sun don't happen equally in all places on our planet, but cleaner is better! I agree that nuclear power can be clean and can be safe, but I'm not sure that it's most important for our power sources to be cheap - especially from the perspective of the next generation!
ReplyDeleteDid you know that the sun creates enough power in one second to power the entire United States for the next 9 million years? Advances must be made to get the most out of our cleanest energy sources sooner rather than later. But in the meantime, nuclear energy is an amazing resource that cannot be ignored!
But let's not pretend that hiding nuclear waste underground is okay for a long-term energy solution just because it's cheap! Sounds like something an adult would think of!