Return to Nuclear Energy.

We can be in agree or disagree with this title but it’s the idea of many European governments , which are thinking in build up a new generation of nuclear plants. Even the creator of the Gaia theory (the Earth is a living organism with the capability of auto-regulation, controlling the weather and a chemical composition that permits life), James Lovelock, is pleading about this energy as the best solution for the global warming (you can read an article from his web about this topic). He supports the new energy policy of the UK Premier Tony Blair. The main reason for that change: the North Sea petrol has been diminishing in recent years.

The reality is hard. We waste a lot of energy and even more year by year, and in the other hand, the oil and natural gas prices are increasing since 2001. Otherwise, many producers as Venezuela, Saudi Arabia or Russia maintain semi-dictatorial regimens thank this manna.

In the European Union, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom want to develop a new generation of nuclear plants. In our case, Spain will not able to assume the Kioto Protocol because we have been increasing so much our CO2 emissions. We like renewable energies but they are insufficient in development and efficiency (consume increases faster than generation). In contrast, France and Germany have choosen different paths for their energy policy. France has been developed nuclear energy for civil and military objectives since De Gaulle era (France’s strategy has always tried to be auto-sufficient in everything). But in contradiction to France, the new German government of Angela Merkel will maintain the environmental policies implanted during the green-red coalition. German people are environmentally concerned.

It’s a troubling affair. I think the problem is not the generation but its rational and right use. We have to learn how to save and appreciate energy, but will we be able to change our wasting way of life in the future??