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Originally Posted by Pudfark
Seems like the solution is for everybody to camp out under the bridge while sharing a candle and howling at the moon....
Really, nearmiss...what viable, alternative energy is affordable/available in Japan?
My answer to that question is None.
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I wouldn't argue on this, but I do say when your country doesn't have enough of something people can become very resourceful.
The profit motives of free markets will always bring something of value that will work. Too much government intervention can inhibit free markets, but the Japanese have been very successful with their government and free markets for the past 60 years.
We do have a problem in the world today. So many countries think they have to have nuclear to be current. Maybe it's rivalry, who knows all the motivations. Whatever the cause, the Japanese are paying a dear price.
Nuclear energy is an eternal problem for a short term solution. That makes no sense, unless you just don't care.
My understanding is America has no government energy policy.
In one of the videos the speaker infers American nuclear power facilities in many locations could be affected by a disaster just as Japan.