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 Originally Posted by JKDS
I think the time is ripe for nuclear to take over. I learned it was safe in high school, many my age did.
But solar power is making enormous strides...
I think I might have bashed solar a bit hard. It is making great strides. Bio-electric solar cells, in particular, have seen astonishing improvements in the past decade. Nonetheless, those improvements bring that tech to a point where it's commensurate with other forms of solar cells. I wrote this off at first, but it does sound cheaper than having to mine rare minerals out of the ground to manufacture the solar cells.
If it's significantly cheaper to produce, and perhaps self-maintaining - in that it doesn't have to be protected from erosion by a layer of [something clear] that will need constant cleaning - then we may have a viable source of power.
It will never compare to nuclear in energy per volume, though. Nothing we know of even comes close if you want to get a lot of energy in a short time and w/o taking up too very much space to do it.
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