Terry,

Trust me there are lots of places in the Southwestern US where all our commercial power production waste could be safely buried without affecting anyone. The fanatics that don't want the material transported through their state are just foolish. Those tank cars on trains aren't all full of harmless water. Another factor is the vastly reduced mining efforts uranium requires. Coal mining kills lots of people.

Wind is ok, the fuel cost is real low, but per kilowatt the windmills aren't. There aren't a lot of places that have steady enough winds to farm effectively.

>Sure - I totally agree with you. Wind turbines would seem to be as useful as a one-legged man in an arse-kicking competition. I think I heard recently that the problem of disposing of nuclear waste isn't half what it's cracked up to be, and that all the stuff that's been created since the start could easily be stored in a deep mine shaft somewhere.
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>At least, nuclear waste is FAR less harmful than the CO2, SO2, particulates etc. that you get off coal burning and, indeed, apart from the radio-active problem, there IS no polution. The Good Lord gave us radioactive elements so that we'd be able to sort ourselves out once we reached the critical situation we're in.
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>I do believe that Tony Blair is now looking again at the nuclear option which the UK has abandoned. We used to be a nett exporter of electricity to France - now we import it from them, with their nuclear infrastructure.