Name: 【TED】Stewart Brand + Mark Z. Jacobson: Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy? (Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?)
Uploaded: 2015-08-03T14:28:39.000Z
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I'd like to actually take a show of hands --

on balance, right now, are you for or against this?

So those who are "yes," raise your hand. "For."

Which means we're going to take a vote at the end

So here's the format: They're going to have six minutes each,

and then after one little, quick exchange between them,

I want two people on each side of this debate in the audience

to make one short, crisp, pungent, powerful point.

So, in favor of the proposition, possibly shockingly,

a long-standing TEDster, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog,

someone we all know and love, Stewart Brand.

The saying is that with climate, those who know the most

He came out with a wonderful book recently

And Hansen is hard over for nuclear power,

We are moving to cities. We are moving up in the world.

But we move to cities, toward the bright lights,

and one of the things that is there that we want, besides jobs,

And if it isn't easily gotten, we'll go ahead and steal it.

And so far there are only three major sources of that --

I would love to have something in the fourth place here,

[solar] and wind and the other renewables

aren't there yet because they're inconstant.

is what happens to the waste from nuclear and from coal,

If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear,

the waste from that lifetime of electricity

a pretty heavy Coke can, about two pounds.

in a normal one-gigawatt coal-fired plant.

out back of the parking lot at the reactor site

because most places don't have underground storage yet.

It's just as well, because it can stay where it is.

and where it is causing the problems that we're most concerned about.

in the lifetime of these various energy sources,

nuclear is down there with wind and hydro,

below solar and way below, obviously, all the fossil fuels.

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【TED】Stewart Brand + Mark Z. Jacobson: Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy? (Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?)

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