The Way of the Nuclear, or The Way of Renewables?

Advances in technology has conspired to award us with the outstanding influence of renewable energy. No doubt, this renewable energy, which many claim to be the savior of mankind to face energy woes, is a very interesting prospect to secure energy security!

Renewable energy has the uncanny fact to be as its name says, renewable! Which means it is a resource which is undepletable! As a bonus, its operation is friendly to the environment with no adverse side-effects.

However, is it practical for renewable energy to replace all other forms of energy production as a whole? Lets take a look at the table below:

 From the table, we can examine that renewable energy sources (green) uses massive amounts of resources! Imagine constructing 100 km square of land area just to produce 1 MWe for 1 year when the same 1MWe can be produced by just 30 tonnes of uranium? From here, it is just not feasible to sustain the earth's resources by pooling all our investments in renewable energy. Although renewable energy has very good prospects for future use and when the technology allows it, right now, it is not able to compete competitively with nuclear energy.

Furthermore, the resources used from developing extensive renewable energy projects can be used to alleviate current world crises such as famine, homeless citizens and no jobs.

So now, nuclear energy or renewable energy?


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