Safe Nuclear Energy

Fossil fuels are limited. Probably good for a long time. But they will run out someday. So nuclear energy has been envisioned as the ultimate energy solution. There is a lot of uranium (hard to get, but plentiful) so uranium based nuclear reactors were invented. Well, nuclear reactors can blow up like Chernobyl. They can spread radioactivity like Fukishima. Nuclear reactors seem a risky business.

Is there another way?

Yes, it does exist, but it is not popular, but why would popularity have any meaning with regard to safety? There is no easy answer to that. But at the same time as nuclear power was being developed in the 1950's another parallel science was being investigated. Scientists proposed drilling to the Mohorovich Discontinuity, the Mo-Hole. That is essentially where the crust meets the earth's molten core, the magma, at a temperature of thousands of degrees Fahrenheit. That would have opened up access to an unlimited high temperature energy source, hotter even than most nuclear reactors. But the scientists quarreled and the project was never completed. Geothermal energy has never since regained the interest of the world wide science community.

Nuclear reactors meanwhile attract billions of dollars of subsidy and government guaranteed investment for large multinational corporations. While nuclear energy companies do pay dividends, environmentalists and others might argue they have never made a real profit. Certainly they will never recompense those who fear their danger...

Geothermal is the safe nuclear energy beneath our feet. Geothermal energy's source is the natural decay of radioactive elements deep within the earth's crust such as thorium and uranium. This radioactivity is very diffuse and the human race long ago adapted to its low back ground level. There is no risk of the earth blowing up. This source of nuclear energy is virtually inexhaustible for tens or hundreds of thousands of years or longer. The interior of the earth is actually hotter than the surface of the sun! Only a few miles away in most places on the earth, safe for millions of years already, it makes sense to utilize this safe energy source.

The crust of the earth is relatively thin. It might be likened to the skin of an apple. The interior of the apple represents the white hot heat of the earth's interior. Only poke a hole in the skin like crust to reach the inexhaustible heat reservoir of the earth's interior. As a planet consider the earth as a molten rock circling the sun with a thin crust as its surface.

Since Mother Nature has provided this relatively accessible geothermal nuclear energy ready to go, it seems rather pointless to risk the danger of radioactivity and explosion associated with nuclear reactors!

Indeed, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has recently published an extensive study of the geothermal potential of the United States (and by extension, the world). MIT found that geothermal energy has the potential to supply all our electrical energy for tens of thousands of years.

Thus geothermal energy is the safe form of nuclear energy. Geothermal energy lies beneath our feet everywhere waiting to be tapped for limitless power by all the nations of the world, impoverished or rich.