The second muscle car era is about over?

goldduster318 said

Nuclear is fine, the two big explosions, Chernobyl and Fukishima were caused by dumb errors. In the case of Chernobyl, the Soviet design could run away if the safeties were disabled, and that's precisely what happened. In Fukishima, the diesel generators were in the basement and got flooded by the Tsunami. Had they been mounted on the roof, the pumps would have kept going and nothing would have happened. Easy to design around. At least it works reliably. The people who want to power everything on wind and solar are insane.

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Those two failures are two too many, especially Fukishima, where they are one earthquake or removal mistake away from triggering the jumbled fuel rods at the bottom of what was once a containment vessel into reaching critical mass which would result in them burning and spewing massive amounts of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere for hundreds or thousands of years. Add to that, that they have no idea what to do with the waste other than store it in temporary containers all over the world. It's irresponsible and foolish to use them.

The earth is a molten planet with a relatively thin crust. With known drilling technology, that heat source could power a virtually unlimited number of clean, heat exchanging steam driven turbines.