On Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 10:56:33 PM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 15:46:05 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc
> <
jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> >On Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 12:22:34 PM UTC-6, RichA wrote:
> >> Personally, I can think of better uses of limited funds. This will likely gives clues as to why so many of these type
> >> of planets exist, but we should be concentrating on the potentially habitable worlds, not gas-giants.
> >
> >The temperature of Uranus recently changed suddenly in an unexplained fashion!
> >
> >So maybe we will discover something on Uranus that will help to save Earth
> >from global warming!
> We already know how to save Earth from global warming. It's quite
> simple. All that's missing is the political will. And we're not going
> to find that on Uranus!
That's true enough.
I could see politicians using a mission to Uranus as a way to justify doing
nothing, of course.
I've already explained how I feel about this. Nuclear power. It lets
conservative politicians feel they're still "owning the libs"! More
importantly, it's a _proven_ way to produce energy, and it isn't strictly
limited by the amount of available sunlight or wind. That doesn't mean
wind and solar, and the energy storage needed to make them more
useful, shouldn't be developed, but if we want to get to zero fossil
fuel use, and we don't want to crimp heavy industrial production at
all, nuclear fills the bill.
Need more energy? Build another plant.
John Savard