Opportunity to Write Your Voice

Here is an opportunity to share your perspective on energy with a cool solar group. Exploratory dialogue is critical to affecting change. To me, the most disturbing aspect of the approach of the nuclear industry is the way they seem bent on being the “whole pie” of energy production, rather than collaboratively advocating for a diverse energy portfolio that emphasizes renewable energy. Additionally, I feel like the nuclear industry’s solution is working within the frame of current consumptive practices, and not encouraging people to reduce consumption on a personal basis. Of course, being from a state where a lot of nuclear waste has been, and continues to be “dumped,” I cannot see nuclear power as a reasonable option, not even a piece of the pie. Cost is a major concern, but also the history of the industry, coupled with the environmental impacts of uranium mining and the rather inefficient and ineffective bureaucracy that necessarily surrounds nuclear power due to safety issues. I would like to see more emphasis put on renewable possibilities in terms of technological advances to make them more cost effective, easier to develop, and distributable over a wide range of geographical locations. Currently, the subsidies for nuclear power far outweigh the subsidies for renewable energy and if this could change we could have a different, and more promising energy future.