Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread
Reply #156 –
And when did any single government plan ever come in on budget? China gets a free pass on 2050 as they're (supposedly) a developing country that lands probes on Mars ! The rot's started there as they're desperate for clean coal (ours) but can't bring themselves to admit they've stuffed up with their import bans.
Nuclear is the only way to go. And we've cornered the market on reserves of uranium. I need add no more as other members have enunciated it well enough.
The fascination with Mars intrigues me. Fundamentally, I love space, science et al, and on a human level, we need to solve the future problem of what happens when the Sun starts to expand before it retracts to a white dwarf. Eventually it will swallow the earth, but will be out of energy by then. Apparently, the moons of Jupiter are more likely to be habitable based on the fact that they have oceans.
Ultimately, its probably all about Iron Ore as to why the red planet is the most fascinating.