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Wind and Nuclear Energy Today

Nuclear Energy is fission and nuclear fusion. We have been using nuclear fission reactors for over fifty years. We had some horribly poor designs including the one in Chernobyl. We had problems disposing of nuclear waste. Today's design's of nuclear energy are like the difference between computers in the 1960's and computer's today. I believe that much of our energy's needs can be met with nuclear energy, because it is clean and we now have ways to reprocess 95% of all nuclear material for reuse in reactors. What is left is reprocessed into glass and is going to be put in Yuca Flats down almost a mile into descending fault lines. Nuclear fusion is the future of long term energy needs. France is a 100% nuclear nation and has never had a nuclear accident. The NIF program that I worked on over ten years ago is being used today for using lasers to produce nuclear fusion. Cold fusion is a long ways away but still possible for energy use. With the inconsistent power gene

Water Pollution Today

Water is essential no matter what our government and its water quality says it should be. States and government agencies manipulate allowed pollution levels. If we don't have sufficient water treatment plants we change the use of chlorine to chloramine, which is a lethal combination of chlorine and ammonia to clean drinking water. But, the new problem is that every pharmacological in the pharmacy is now in large cities drinking water.Everything from birth control pills to cocaine is in New York's drinking water. I try to have a low flush toilet and don't do my laundry except in the evening to lower peak demand. I don't water my lawn because I don't have one in the country. Solutions, build 10,000 desalination plants in the United States and get that money from $100 billion that would be spent on defense. Have secure fresh drinking water forever is the best defense any nation can have, instead of more aircraft carriers, and jetfighters. WE have our nations prioritie