Comment by macspoofing

One of the issues of plunging headlong into solar and wind (and bio-fuels) is that those sources require huge land-areas around mining of rare metals, deployment, and finally waste. As our global population and energy needs grow, this problem gets bigger and bigger and therefore place stress on existing, and already stressed, ecosystems. On the other end, nuclear is energy dense, and requires tiny amount of land for energy generation and waste storage. Sooner or later we will be moving back to large scale nuclear deployment because there isn't anything like nuclear power which checks the global warming box and reduced stress on ecosystem box.