Ron Paul Interview Part 2 of 6

How did this guy not get elected president?

ok.. any waste involved in the creation of wind and solar energy PALES in comparison to the copious amounts of NUCLEAR TOXIC WASTE that the creation of nuclear power does...

how can you even compare the two??

I'm referring more to the actual output of energy you get. Wind and solar energies powering everything is a nice idea, but the amount of space it takes up and the relatively very little amount of power which actually is collected needs to be stored in batteries, which are also are extremely toxic.

Wind and solar still needs time to become the primary power source. Nuclear power can pick up the slack to phase out fossil fuels, which produce MORE toxic waste.

OK, ethanol is bad. I get it now.

really? I had never heard that before. Nuclear energy is cleaner and more efficient than any other power source from what I understand, and disposing of the waste is not very costly or damaging to the environment if done properly.

Now, I don't know how much waste solar energy plants create, besides the oils and fluids needed for the turbines and other systems that they entail. But I suspect it is more per kilowatt hour outputted by a nuclear plant.

there are issues with it. competition keeps the price of energy down and makes the investment cost of nuclear plants unattractive to investors. plants have to be near populations i believe, something to do with loss of energy in transit. currently we have fission, but they are working on nuclear fusion in the south of france (a multi national effort) which may be interesting. personally i believe we will discover unravel something very simple to fuel humanity going forward.

Yeah, cable loss. Electricity dissipates the longer it has to travel through a conductor, unless it is a superconductor. I believe that cooled ceramic acts as a superconductor, but it would take energy to keep the ceramic cool, so that kind of defeats the purpose.

I believe that nuclear power is hindered more by people's paranoia over Chernobyl, which never had proper supervision or containment facilities.

agreed, although i watched a documentary indicating that the effects of radiation at Chernobyl were barely different to the normal effects of ambient radiation elsewhere in the world. It was stunning, they talked about how the first on site clean up operatives suffered lots of negative effects, but that rates of illness on the locals were not that excessive, you never know if it was influenced by nuclear interests but was an interesting documentary regardless

yeah McCain thinks that nucular energy is a great idea too...thats a great idea if we want just one more thing as a threat for our countries safety

Socialism isn't the answer it's a problem. Capitalism and the free market are designed to protect the average consumer. The problem is that whenever government it corrupts the free market. For example, look at your cell phone plan. Because of the free market companies have to compete and give better rates to get consumers. With socialism you get what they give you and that's it. There's no incentive to improve it. The problem with government is that it interferes with the free market.

Look at intellectual property rights. IP was created by the government as a way to protect small businesses from big businesses stealing their ideas and running with them. Government got involved. Now big business champions IP and uses it to sue any small competition out of business. They get patents on anything and everything and in the end big business benefited. It's better to leave the government out of anything society comes out better that way.