The choices facing us on the…

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The choices facing us on the planet are obvious and life-threatening: We can

either adopt, immediately, 100% renewable energy , or face various

types of disasters caused by our continued use of fossil fuels, and

of fostering their production.

Furthermore, nuclear power presents further problems for those of us

who live on this planet: There are no ways to decontaminate spent

fuel, decommissioned power plants, or mine tailings, except by

waiting hundreds of thousands of years. Even ignoring these

problems, construction of new nuclear plants will take decades --

decades that we do not have.

Massively reduced use of fossil fuels is key, as is eliminating motor

vehicles as the opiate of the masses. Solar and other renewable energy

sources are crucial to our survival, as it creation of scalable

electrical energy storage systems, to allow solar and wind power to

be used effectively.

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