TED Debate on Nuclear Energy

I've found that TED talks are pretty good at providing entry level education on a variety of topics, and the debate format that this one takes seems to be especially relevant to this class. Two environmentalist debate whether or not nuclear energy is the right direction to push in.

This is the link to the video.

Personally, I found that the anti-nuclear side of Jacobson relied heavily on overly complex charts and appeal to fear in the form of 'inevitable' nuclear attacks. Another thing I thought was odd was that while Brand cited research that put the amount of land needed at the size of the entire US, Jacobson said that wee needed only a tiny portion of ocean space. It seemed too good to be true. If we could throw up a couple of wind farms over the ocean in just a few years and solve the whole problem, wouldn't we be doing that?

Ben Roy