Our need to find new sources of energy is becoming greater every day. Electricity is a basic need in our lives, without it everyday life literaly stops. Fossil fuels are other of our energy sources, they are burned to get heat, the oldest type of energy source. These to sources of energy have become obsolete, they contaminate too much. At their shor term use we could use them with no problems or side effects, but now the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have become too great. We are urged to get new ways of getting our energy, ways that do not pollute as much and ways that are also safe for us humans.
Nuclear energy is a very efficient type of energy. It could really be the solution to our problems. It is not cheap, but with a single atom we can produce a lot of energy. Atomic energy, as it is sometimes called, has to be produced in special plants that are filled with different security measures because the radiation that escapes from this enourmous amounts of energy is very high too. So there are also some down sides to nuclear energy, as to everything. We have to become a more efficient species but that is not without is losses. To save our planet from contamination we will have to sacrifice some of our species, we will have to risk human lives.
The disasters occured in Nagasaki and Hiroshima prove how strong nuclear energy is but how dangerous as well. To be able to control this type of power we have to be very responsible as to who gets to manage this type of technology. As an energy source it is permitted but as a weapon it should be shameful to even think about using. The effects nuclear energy has as a weapon are very painful, not only as a bomb but also all the side effects it has. Nuclear energy can become our next energy source but we must be careful as to who gets to manage it and how it is managed.
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I think finding alternative ways to obtain energy is a very important issue. I like the idea of this post, I just don't take the idea of looking for new kinds of obtaining energy because our world is going to end; our world isn't ending, maybe human race will, probably, if we keep behaving like we do. But is very important to look for energy alternatives that are cheaper and more efficient, for they to be available to all people. I think this is a very important matter, if all people are available to use it, would be a great help to our contamination issues, we may have very good energy alternatives or ways that to not contaminate so much but they are in the hands of a few people and they do not work entirely. For example, there is this car that result to be very ecological, but also very expensive.
To end this comment, looking for alternatives is very important but it is also to make it available to all people.
The nuclear issue will certanly become an ever-larger debate as countries are forced to choose between what is environmentally-friendly, or cost effective - as a means to provide the energy needs of its population.
Thanks for your comment too Luis Enrique - I enjoyed reading it.
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