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It is pretty easy to argue about the risks of different types of power when the lights are on, the Internet is working and you open your refrigerator to select another drink.
In the USA the population is growing about a quarter million people a month.More power is the expectation. All citizens anymore have lots of power, no expectations of a shortage.
I am not sure how that translates but the power grid has to grow to keep pace. If one power station goes off line there had better be a new bigger one to take it's place.
Maybe there will be a new form of cold fusion or something to develop but maybe their won't be. Solar energy won't cut it. We don't have enough land mass, it gets dark at night. Wind is totally unreliable, the wind may blow or it might not.
Start looking at what is out there. The two biggies are Coal and Nuclear fission. This isn't utopia. You have to pick one of the two.
Next time that you hear that there 100,000 new jobs last month remember that the population grew a lot faster.
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