The Atomic Show #083 – Atomic Advocacy with John Wheeler and Lisa Stiles
John Wheeler of This Week In Nuclear and Lisa Stiles, a contributing blogger at NEI Nuclear Notes joined in a discussion focused on atomic advocacy.
John Wheeler, Lisa Stiles and I talked about our passion for nuclear technologies. We also talked about job opportunities in the nuclear business, the need for large infrastructure investments in electricity generation and delivery, the competition between nuclear and LNG projects, and the fact that we need large new sources of energy in order to maintain our current prosperity.
We also touched on the fact that maintaining our own prosperity is simply not enough when there are so many people who have no access at all to the quantities of energy consumed by the average American.
February 19th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Thoughts for another show… what would be the impact of investing a large part of the money spent on war, on nuclear energy and the impact on our dependance on oil worldwide?
looking at this site for numbers http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home
Lets dream for a while!
Simon
February 19th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Simon:
I agree. Unfortunately, every dime that we spend on the war is gone and no longer available for addressing important problems like secure energy sources that will last far into the future or climate change that will slowly change the habitability patterns of the entire planet. Of course, the cost of the war is not just measured in dollars – one of my best friends, for example, has just been internally drafted to learn how to be a soldier at age 49. Great guy, patriot, but makes me sad to think that his presence is considered necessary.
I personally liked Ron Paul’s solution. Leave.