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The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday.

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idyll2 months, 2 weeks ago

And if we don't invest it?....
I'd like to know more about this study. What was the methedology? Who funded it? I'm suspicious of nuclear power pushed as the only and immediate solution.

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  jimdoze2 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Did you even read the summary? Nuclear Power IS NOT pushed as the only solution! However, it IS and inevitably WILL BE the cornerstone of the solution.
  Furthermore, hardcore Greens are pushing for nuclear fission power as a major part of the answer to the Global Warming/Sustainable Industrial Economy question
  http://www.ecolo.org/lovelock/
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    idyll2 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    Sorry. My comment was cranky. I do see that other technologies are included in the recommendations, but I part ways with the 'hardcore greens' on nuclear power. I'm not convinced that the serious problems with it are anywhere near solved. We'd just be trading one enormous problem for another.
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      jimdoze2 months, 2 weeks ago
      
      I disagree about nukes. There are risks. Those risks are manageable and well within the acceptable cost/benefit ratio that is intrinsic to any human endeavor.
      Your mea culpa is accepted.
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