[TheForge] now Japanese nuke plants OT: POL:

[James Binnion]

On Mar 17, 2011, at 11:47 AM, peter fels wrote:

> That's changing, both in the cost and efficiency of solar cells etc,
Alternative energy sources aren't even close by orders of magnitude yet, yes they are getting better but they still cannot compete in scale or cost with petro or nuke.

> 
> Also there is a vast amount of natural gas and methane hydrate if we can somehow sequester the CO2. 

This is probably easier than making solar or wind cary the load, but still a huge engineering task.

James Binnion
jbin at well.com