the9billion.comPosted Jan 12, 2012, 1:32 PM UTC
Did anybody else see the great long thread in Reddit News this headline provoked? I'm endlessly staggered by the sheer ignorance of most people, and that thread confirmed it. I'm utterly sick of people saying Nuclear power is the answer, and that 'Renewables only work with subsidies'
I think it's an extension of 'reality is what I want it to be' that has been stoked by the climate change deniers. Facts and science are just competing opinions to a certain demographic - and they prefer the opinions they read in the Daily Mail, Telegraph, see on Fox News, etc.. We live in interesting times....
Fortunately, the world's engineers and investors aren't paying too much attention to the nuke cult or anti-renewable gang. :)
Imagine this in America - oh wait - government assistance and market manipulation required = socialism! Damn Germans owning the energy they use! How dare they! Drill baby! Energy independence for America!
/mini rant