Patrick, I admire your willingness to embrace cutting edge technology, but we’ve been there and done that countless times. You, pardon the pun, are wishing upon a star. You said it yourself: “If it works.” What if it doesn’t? Scientists, bless their hearts, have hyped their research (or allowed reporters to do it for them) many, many times. It keeps the grant money flowing in. The very same argument you make; “don’t build nukes, wait for this new technology” has been made for cold fusion, tokomaks and hot fusion, wave power, wind power, solar power, and pumping water (one of the earth’s best lubricants) down a seismically active geothermal well. All of these have produced only a piddling watt or two, if anything. We have long since passed the point where we can wait any longer. We need nukes now. They DO work. If something better comes along, fine, stop building nukes and go for that TOO. If the new technology proves to be another broken reed, at least we will have SOMETHING.
