Solar and Wind energy, if promoted properly can fulfill every requirement. The money which we are investing in Nuclear reactors and Hydroelectricity etc. should be diverted to the LARGE SCALE promotion of renewable sources of energy. Otherwise all our slogans on environmental conservation will be slogans only. And I request 'Intellectuals' to do some more research before writing anything against any idea. Why do we see everything so negatively?
The people sitting in the power must open eyes to the fact that we have already devastated the nature due to our myopic vision. First coal, earthquake-inviting dams, petrol, diesel and NOW killing nuclear power (yes, it brings with it many environmental hazards; the management of Nuclear waste is not difficult, but impossible) !!! Is this the way to save the Nature???
India's euphoria over our nuclear deal with the US is puzzling. If nuclear generated electricity is good for India, so should it be for the US. But the US hasn't built a single nuclear plant in the last so many decades. In Western Europe, most of the nations are THINKING SERIOUSLY of phasing out nuclear power. India should question its over night enthusiasm for a source of energy that is being rejected in many of the world's most advanced countries.
The world tide is largely against it. The reasons are based on safety and economics. Public opinion in Europe opposes nuclear plants because they generate radioactive waste whose storage can kill and injure future generations.
To quote a report by Rob Edwards published in "The New Scientist" , 10th June 2006 (Magazine issue 2555),"In the mountain village of Kara Agach in Kyrgyzstan, people are unwittingly eating radioactive waste. Radium left behind by more than two decades of uranium mining during the Soviet era has contaminated their chickens,milk, potatoes and pears." THIS IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE....
A new study by Belgian and Kyrgyz scientists has shown that villagers are receiving radiation doses up to 40 times the internationally recommended safety limit, mostly from the food they grow. If the uranium waste dumps were dislodged by earthquakes or landslides, thousands more could be in danger. "There is a potential for a radiological disaster to happen," says Hildegarde Vandenhove from the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre in Mol.
In the debate over the merits and demerits of nuclear energy, the situation in Kara Agach is a warning.
Till what time will we live in stone age? Everything must be decided on the merits and demerits & on purely scientific grounds. What is the point in ignoring the freely available energy and kissing the death? If we could start to see the things in more correct light, we can save our nature from more extinction.
Seeing the current level of pollution and the reports on climate change, It is now DO or DIE situation for every nation and every living being across the globe. And we need emergency measures to be taken now. And according to the experts, BULK production of renewable sources of energy will bring down the costs to affordable limits.
We are already sick of the fumes of Petrol/Diesel and we are also fearful of the side-effects of the Nuclear energy. So in order to make this earth a real paradise, we need to switch over to SOLAR AND WIND ENERGY as soon as possible.
With warm regards,
Chetan Upadhyaya
Satya Foundation
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