One of my natural resource profs back in college spent a lot of time talking to us about energy. This guy understood conservation back and forth and was a diehard hunter, fisherman, and trapper. He remains one of the leading authorities on the Mississippi River, though he's retired.
His take? "Any thinking scientist will tell you there is no cleaner, more efficient power source than nuclear. Unfortunately the political climate in this country is such that you can't even have a discussion about it. The hippies and Hollywood types come running out of the woodwork and convince us the world is coming to an end."
He said those words two decades ago and they remain true, in my opinion. Instead of intelligent discussions about energy policy, we get Al Gore.
Not that I'm jaded or anything /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif