Hehe, I like the poem. Nuclear is a great idea, especially since Canada is fortunate enough to have the shield to bury all the waste in.
I was listening to Quirks & Quarks on CBC a while back and they had an environmental scientist (can't remember specific field) on to talk about energy production and biofuel. Main gist of it was this new fascination of using ethonol from corn and wheat is a brutal idea that won't help much beyond the short term. He argued that a more promising idea came from using wood chips and sawdust, especially in the wake of the Pine Beetle.
He estimated that if we were to convert the entire stock of biowaste affected by the Pine Beetle into energy, it would be enough to support Canada for the next 27 years of sustained growth (or something like that).
Course, the problem is getting all that matter to a power plant usually ends up costing more then it take to product, but there are some developments going on to address that.
I wouldn't be surprised that within our lifetime we will see a shift away from fossile fuels like oil and natural gas and a move towards a different form of biofuel. The funny part is that is really isn't much of a move forwards technologically... we relied on biofuel for thousands of years to meet our energy needs.
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