John Savard a écrit :
The good news is this: we can stop emitting carbon dioxide _without_
going back to the Middle Ages and destroying the economy. The bad news
(well, not *really* bad) is that the environmental activists aren't
going to be happy when we do it.

Because the way to do it is, of course, to start building a lot of
nuclear power plants.


NONSENSE!

We can use solar energy to satisfy all our needs. Solar energy provides
enough energy to fill ALL our needs:

1) Gather solar energy in the Sahara and other deserts. You can use
indirect ways (rising hot air current) or direct photovoltaics.
2) Break water down into hydrogen and oxygen. Throw away the oxygen
in the atmosphere and store the hydrogen in bottles.
3) Transport the hydrogen to consumption places.
4) Burn hydrogen in batteries or in cars with oxygen to form water
again.

Please do not answer with "economics". Price of oil is kept artificially
low, and that is ending anyway. Price of nuclear power doesn't take
into account the problem of managing waste products during thousands of
years!

Solar power is free, non-polluting, and will fix our energy problems.
There is no need to build nuclear / carbon power, we can live from
the sun as the plants are doing since more than 3 billion years.