From Harvey Roll
Your article on the hydrogen economy doesn’t contain a single mention of the
most obvious method of achieving the synthesis of hydrogen without adding to
“greenhouse” emissions—nuclear energy. Far fewer people have ever been
killed by peaceful nuclear technology than die in a single day from asthma or
other respiratory problems.
This technology is already available. Yet it has had such a bad press that it
is apparently no longer considered in a “scientific” discussion of energy
provision. It hasn’t gone away—where would France, Japan or even Britain
be without it?
Are we to stand by and watch the world struggle to deal with global warming
without talking about nuclear power rationally? The NIMBYs may well end up with
only seawater or desert in their backyards.
Gosforth, Tyne and Wear
