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Decentralised renewable power, not centralised nuclear, is the answer

the true Solartopian solution to our energy crisis.
COUNTER PUNCH Harvey Wasserman 23 Sept
Mycle Schneider, Paris-based author of WHAT FRANCE GOT WRONG in NUCLEAR ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL, gets it right: “For least cost and greatest security, the energy future lies in affordable, distributed, superefficient technologies, smart grids and sustainable urbanism. France’s centralised, autocratic nuclear policy symbolizes the opposite.

“The true green technologies of a Solartopian Revolution are proven, ecologically sound and economically essential. They are also ready for rapid installation.But they are decentralized and subject to community control rather than corporate domination.

While Friedman and his moneyed elite continue to grasp at the failed, centralized straw of atomic energy, technology and history have passed them by.”Real men”—and women—know we will never get to a green-powered Earth by trying to ride a dead radioactive horse—even if it’s French.

Harvey Wasserman: Tom Friedman’s Idiocy Atomique

September 23, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, ENERGY | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, renewables