Why is no form of producing energy perfect or at least near it?

Question

Every single one of them pollutes or is not strong enough to be useful. The so called nuclear power has got to be the worst. You get pollution from mining the uranium and radioactive waste that is very hard and expensive to deal with.

Answer 1

You have a very valid point. Energy production is polluting and inefficient. Energy production, however, creates work, and work creates wealth. If there was a form of energy that was free and non-polluting, a great number of people would lose their work, in almost every single arena of employment. Society would be devastated.

Perhaps the energy used by those so-called UFOs to travel interstellar distances might come from such an energy source. So, perhaps if people were to discover that UFOs are real, then we would realize that such an energy source does exist.

During world war two, Hitler had his scientists working on something called Zero Point Energy (which is real and not just something from Stargate) which would have provided them with an inexhaustible energy source. Fortunately, if they did achieve it then they were too late to change the outcome of the war. However, it is something that they have had a further sixty years to perfect. It is real and it exists, free energy.

Back to you question, imagine the economic devastation that would follow if free energy were to be provided to the world's population. I am doing an A level in sociology (In the UK) and I am just beginning to realize the impact that free energy would have upon this world. It would bring an end to world hunger. It would bring an end to water shortages. Floods could be easily prevented. Just think how much money the developed world's governments would lose if they could no longer cripple the third world with unpayable debts! Just imagine how bad it would be for America if Africa were to become a business competitor! Europe is much closer to Africa, and delivery of goods is the most expensive aspect of business.

Nuclear could be the answer. If we could learn how to use it properly.

I'm affraid we are stuck with polluting innefficient fuels that are harmful and wasteful. Just think about the consequences of free energy for everybody; the whole nature of this society would have to be changed; wealth would become irrelevent.

This is something that I have been thinking about for a long time.

Answer 2

Your view of nuclear power is extremely distorted and not based on fact. Nuclear fission is by far our best source for a significant share in the near term, reducing fossil fuel usage and CO2 emissions. If it's used enough in the US, and if we have the public will to do it, we will build fast breeder reactors to utilize spent fuel and greatly minimize radioactive waste.

Photovoltaic cells are improving dramatically, especially in terms of cost. The price of the electronics to connect rooftop solar from a house to the power grid has become very reasonable. Several are available which look just like standard roofing tiles. There's a company (Canadian Solar?) making photovoltaic panels which also heat water. That technology alone is enough to make most homes nearly energy self-sufficient. When technology permits every electric or hybrid car to have a photovoltaic roof, it could give another 20-40% boost in their energy efficiency. It is the only technology effective at providing the energy at the point of use, eliminating transmission costs and losses.

Answer 3

Right, that's why they make so much money, no one has figured out a clean way to produce energy. The Patent office is flooded with applicants for perpetual motion, and zero point energy, but nothing is a go so far, but when they figure it out, they will be richer than Bill Gates...

P.S., You look like you are angry, have some tension between the eyes... if you're upset about the state of things, then do something about it. Angry is not productive to saving the Earth.

Answer 4

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