Japan Nuclear Crisis Wake Up Call for Alternative Energy?
I guess if you are trying to make lemonade out of a lemon, Japan's bad news may be good news for the rest of the world...in some respects at least.
On the other hand, it may be bad news.
Depends on where you stand on energy, pollution, climate change, and a lot of other issues.
It is sure to raise worldwide interest in alternative energy options. However, it may cause the public to demand the older, less frightful, but more polluting sources of power, such as coal.
"'The accident in Japan is not a death sentence for nuclear power,' stressed Jean-Marie Chevalier, an economist and energy expert at the Universite Paris Dauphine, pointing to the hundreds of billions of dollars invested in existing reactors and plants under construction."
-SOURCE: Yahoo News
Since the 1986 Chernobyl accident, nuclear power has begun to make a comeback and overcome the fears of the general population. Japan's nuclear power problems in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami are probably going to cause a major setback.
While alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power are growing and provide an ever increasing amount of the world's energy, it will be a long time, if ever, before such methods will provide the majority of the world's energy needs.
Societies will have to balance the need for power, real or imagined, and the drawbacks of the possible sources of that power.
--Donovan Baldwin
On the other hand, it may be bad news.
Depends on where you stand on energy, pollution, climate change, and a lot of other issues.
It is sure to raise worldwide interest in alternative energy options. However, it may cause the public to demand the older, less frightful, but more polluting sources of power, such as coal.
"'The accident in Japan is not a death sentence for nuclear power,' stressed Jean-Marie Chevalier, an economist and energy expert at the Universite Paris Dauphine, pointing to the hundreds of billions of dollars invested in existing reactors and plants under construction."
-SOURCE: Yahoo News
Since the 1986 Chernobyl accident, nuclear power has begun to make a comeback and overcome the fears of the general population. Japan's nuclear power problems in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami are probably going to cause a major setback.
While alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power are growing and provide an ever increasing amount of the world's energy, it will be a long time, if ever, before such methods will provide the majority of the world's energy needs.
Societies will have to balance the need for power, real or imagined, and the drawbacks of the possible sources of that power.
--Donovan Baldwin
Labels: alternative energy, japan earthquake, japan tsunami, japanese nuclear plant, solar power, wind power
posted by Donovan Baldwin at 12:42 PM
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