Which energy source do you prefer overall?

[Rotted]

Nuclear.

Nuclear drives solar. The others on the list are a product of solar energy since you wouldn't have the terrestrial energy sources (wind, water, fossil) without solar.

Nuclear power is amazing.

Portugal powered their entire country on hydro power for a month recently.

Germany apparently did it last week or the week before on wind I think it was I read? Costa Rica also have the potential to use purley hydro power for 100% usage.

My issue with nuclear is the waste and dumping it. Digging a massive hole or dumping in a concrete block at the bottom of the ocean isn't an ideal solution. It's half life is what? 250,000 years IIRC? Like my old chemistry tutor used to say, we can't keep track of what happened 2000 years ago, what hope do you we have for quarter of a million years?

But that's my only beef with nuclear. Power wise its fantastic, employment wise it's awesome. For example I live about an hour away from somewhere called Trawsfynedd in Wales. That has a nuclear plant. It stopped operating in 1991 and became an educational facility of sorts for people to visit to learn about electricity in general and nuclear.

A few years ago it was decided to decommission it completely. The people who will complete the deconstruction of that plant haven't even been born yet. It's expected to be another 90 years. But that's 90 years of guaranteed, specialist jobs, just for deconstruction

[Protean]

Portugal powered their entire country on hydro power for a month recently.

Germany apparently did it last week or the week before on wind I think it was I read? Costa Rica also have the potential to use purley hydro power for 100% usage.

My issue with nuclear is the waste and dumping it. Digging a massive hole or dumping in a concrete block at the bottom of the ocean isn't an ideal solution. It's half life is what? 250,000 years IIRC? Like my old chemistry tutor used to say, we can't keep track of what happened 2000 years ago, what hope do you we have for quarter of a million years?

But that's my only beef with nuclear. Power wise its fantastic, employment wise it's awesome. For example I live about an hour away from somewhere called Trawsfynedd in Wales. That has a nuclear plant. It stopped operating in 1991 and became an educational facility of sorts for people to visit to learn about electricity in general and nuclear.

A few years ago it was decided to decommission it completely. The people who will complete the deconstruction of that plant haven't even been born yet. It's expected to be another 90 years. But that's 90 years of guaranteed, specialist jobs, just for deconstruction

Fuel availability is another downside. Nuclear cannot sustain the planet for long because of limited fuel.

[IIamaKing]

Id like to see humans shift more to nuclear as the main source with wind, solar and geothermal augmenting.

[Lochton]

Which energy source do you prefer overall?

I’d say solar because it’s the most sustainable and along with batteries I think will eventually be the fuel for earths first space ships.

Hydro or solar, for me, really.

[psiko74]

the tesseract

[Pangalactic]

Nuclear, it's the safest and most efficient form of energy. Sure you will remember Fukushima and Chernobyl disasters, but if you compare the number of victims from these two events (thousands of people) to people who die of air pollution (which is millions) that coal power plants as well as the solar production plants lead to, the answer is obvious.

[igualitarist]

Whatever is the most efficient for the specific region.

[xindralol]

I mean ideally nuclear but sadly resources are limited so solar is probably the best overall.

[The Stormbringer]

Portugal powered their entire country on hydro power for a month recently.

Germany apparently did it last week or the week before on wind I think it was I read? Costa Rica also have the potential to use purley hydro power for 100% usage.

My issue with nuclear is the waste and dumping it. Digging a massive hole or dumping in a concrete block at the bottom of the ocean isn't an ideal solution. It's half life is what? 250,000 years IIRC? Like my old chemistry tutor used to say, we can't keep track of what happened 2000 years ago, what hope do you we have for quarter of a million years?

But that's my only beef with nuclear. Power wise its fantastic, employment wise it's awesome. For example I live about an hour away from somewhere called Trawsfynedd in Wales. That has a nuclear plant. It stopped operating in 1991 and became an educational facility of sorts for people to visit to learn about electricity in general and nuclear.

A few years ago it was decided to decommission it completely. The people who will complete the deconstruction of that plant haven't even been born yet. It's expected to be another 90 years. But that's 90 years of guaranteed, specialist jobs, just for deconstruction

I believe there is one type of nuclear power that actually uses the traditional waste from older nuclear power as its fuel. They're called 'molten salt' reactors. So we can actually start re-using that waste as fuel.

[Th3Scourge]

Nucular!

[Kellhound]

I prefer lignite, sans scrubbers.

[White Goodman1]

Red Bull, it gives you wings!

[smegmage]

Poorly worded question is poorly worded.

I like oil and picked it because it gets me around, but I'd prefer if we could switch to nuclear until solar is a viable option.

[skakruk]

Nuclear. Shame Ford Nucleon never made it into production...

[Voidism]

Nuclear, definitely. I like solar too, but mainly for space probes and stuff.
Geothermal is missing from your poll. I like that one too.

Can't wait for fusion though!