Bill Gates on 60 Minutes just now.

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17. Oh, and about "expensive..."

The first commercial nuclear power plant in the West, Calder Hall, operated for almost 50 years.

The Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in my neck of the woods operated for 49 years. It was a gift for my father's generation to mine.

I've analyzed the average lifetime of wind turbines using the comprehensive data base available at the Danish Energy Agency's website. For future generations they are liabilities that will need to be hauled away.

The United States built more than 100 nuclear reactors in a period of 25 years while providing the lowest electricity prices in the world.

We now learn that what has already happened is impossible.

It would be interesting to learn whether the steel plants that make those wind turbine posts are required to meet the same standards to which we hold nuclear plants, that is that no one be able to even imagine, even those with limited educations, any kind of health consequence over the next 15 centuries, never mind tomorrow.