Off Topic Posts aka Rabbit Trail Thread - Mostly YEC Geology

That is perhaps the best analogy I have ever seen with regard to the Flood debate.

It's this level of oversimplification that leads you to be so absolutely wrong every time you post.

Fortunately, there are alternatives to simply burning fossil fuels.Plenty of people will go on and on about solar and wind and hydro...they have their place, but they cannot provide the power production capacity and reliability needed to form the backbone for generation going forward.Nuclear power is by far the safest method of power generation (yes, nuclear power is statistically safer per megawatt generated than wind, solar, hydro, or any other method of generating power), and happens to have an ample, easy source of fuel. Most of the "problems" of nuclear power are either outdated designs (see Fukushima) or are simply self-imposed by fearmongers (fuel rod reprocessing).A modern, standardized reactor design could be implemented en mass to replace coal, oil, and gas plants with more safety and greater scalability. A breeder reactor chain could virtually eliminate nuclear waste and squeeze even more power out of the fuel. We could even use the Thorium cycle instead of Uranium and have an extremely plentiful fuel source with a relatively miniscule amount of waste material.Combined with increased sales in electric cars, we can do an awful lot towards ridding ourselves of dependance on fossil fuels almost in their entirety.For developing nations...there are designs for cargo-container sized nuclear power plants. These can be used to provide power generation for small areas (and could even decentralize the power grid for larger nations like the US, where we are very vulnerable to mass power outages - I'm sure most of us remember the East Coast blackout a few years back) as a nation develops. The fuel is kept sealed, and the container is easily shipped back to the manufacturer for refueling after a decade or so of operation.It's entirely possible to achieve the goal of massively reducing CO2 production within a decade. Ironically, the very Earth-conscious idiots who want that reduction are almost exclusively the ones who vehemently resist the real solution, because they've bought into anti-nuclear hysteria and outright lies. Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Off-topic banner.