Energy Costs to Rise 'Viciously' Without Atomic Power, IEA Says
Energy will become "viciously more expensive" and polluting if governments don't promote renewable and nuclear power in the next two decades instead of burning coal, the International Energy Agency said.
Global demand for energy is set to increase 40 percent by 2035, the Paris-based agency said today in its annual World Energy Outlook report. Consumption will rise 1.3 percent a year to 16.96 billion metric tons of oil equivalent in 2035, spurred ...
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Have a look at the Daly interview of Bill Clinton a little further down the page. Take into account the real expense of coal (health effects, for instance) and renewable energy is competitive with coal. Better still the price of renewably generated electricity is decreasing day by day and all the indications are that it will continue to do so. We still have waste from the Manhattan project sitting above ground and haven't found a way to dispose of it. Take the true cost of Nuclear into account and there is no way it is competitive with renewable energy. You don't even have to invoke Fukashima and the effect of a natural disaster or terrorist attack on a nuclear facility to realize that Nuclear is a non starter.