If we can't get geothermal going there are just two options;

1. Nuclear, uranium and or thorium.
2. Coal and gas.

Uranium will peak, but reprocessing will take existing stocks to hundreds of years.
Coal and gas will peak by about 2025 or so.

There is nothing else capable of the job in sight at this time.

Forecast; the first night a meal cannot be cooked and the lights go
out a nuclear power station will be demanded by the next day.

Point taken Bazz. But is it, (or more importantly), should it be true ?, that we not attempt to develop sources of base load power that are viable alternatives to the list you mention as a matter of course.

Why can't we put on the thinking cap about this ?. Why can't we think outside the square on this one ?. Why can't we consider the priorities of business interests controlling supply as irrelevant when it comes to the essential services, such as power, water, communications etc.

"Uranium will peak, but reprocessing will take existing stocks to hundreds of years".

When will uranium peak, 25 yrs ?. I'm not sure that we have technology to reprocess spent fuel rods do we ?. I haven't done any research on that subject, I apologise for not having the time Bazz. Could you provide a link please.

Divergence draws attention correctly, to the connection between religion (particularly christian) and the lack of regard for the planets other organisms. Those other organisms being, not crafted in Gods image.
This should be the subject of a whole new post.

going by your last comment
im thinking the question should maybe have read
whats worse[a god event]..or a man made event..

that many dont respect nature
[that rightfully should read nurture]
for such is god.. the creator of nature..[s] true value
[love grace mercy etc]

anyhow that many dont respect gods creations
is directly the error of man[men]..not god

the high[priests of man..have misslead
and decieved many away from knowing the true good of god
[the personal life giver sustaining ALL LIVING THEIR LIVES]

to kill any life is to insult the god [good]
sustaining them their very life..[none live but that god sustains life to live]

we should be talking about the mweltdown
and govt covering up for those who made shortcuts
that allowed possable danger to become a real and present danger

i should be explaining about how the water from a joe fuel cell
neutralises radio/activity completly

i should be saying how we are even using the wrong terms
[we all know about heat RADIATING from a fire
that radiation is via convecting the heat]

that smoke dosnt radiate into the sky
nor is caled radiation[an activity not a noun]

but this is also revealing how satanists
like to use the wrong words..to keep their secret
power..[read control over the ignorant]..

so much would be clear if only we used the right words

recall you shall call him emmanuel
[god with us]..as jesus revealed god is IN US ALL..

he revealed
we dont need internediators
we can all KNOW god one to one
simply by KNOWING/hearing.. his[good]living loving INNER-voice]

ie.. god is *ALL GOOD*

if its good ..its from god
if its *not all good..its not from god

what can be worse than not knowing good
being decieved that he is bad

what's worse?
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/monstersamongus.php#axzz1Gn3Vkdh9
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/03/first-radiation-particles-from-damaged.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366799/CIA-contractor-charged-murder-Pakistan-freed-U-S-pays-compensation-families.html

All Mizuho ATMs In Japan Have Stopped Working
By: Kelly Thomas
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/all-mizuho-atms-japan-have-stopped-working
Mizuho, the second-largest financial services company in Japan, has just locked out its customers from accessing their cash. Whether or not this is related to Zero Hedge reports from yesterday that the same bank is unable to complete ¥570 billion in transactions in unclear.

27 Signs That The Nuclear Crisis In Japan Is Much Worse Than Either The Mainstream Media Or The Japanese Government Have Been Telling Us
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/27-signs-that-the-nuclear-crisis-in-japan-is-much-worse-than-either-the-mainstream-media-or-the-japanese-government-have-been-telling-us

Yes, things really are that serious.

We are not just talking about a repeat of Chernobyl.

We are possibly talking about "many Chernobyls".

It is somewhat understandable that the Japanese government and the mainstream media do not want to panic the public, but the reality is that people need the truth about what is going on.

Sometimes it is much more important to watch what people are doing rather than what they are saying.

For example, a significant number of foreign governments are now evacuating personnel from Tokyo.

Fukushima nuclear plant owner falsified inspection records
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/fukushima-nuclear-plant-owner-falsified-inspection-records/story-fn84naht-1226023073141

The misconduct came to light in 2002 after whistleblowers working for General Electric, which designed the reactor, complained to the Japanese government.

Another GE employee later confessed that he had falsified records of inspections of reactor No1 in 1989 - at the request of TEPCO officials. He also admitted to falsifying other inspection reports, also on request of the client.

After that incident TEPCO was forced to shut down 17 reactors, albeit temporarily.

Official UN Forecast:
Japan Radioactive Fallout Heading To US West Coast
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/03/16/official-forecast-japan-radioactive-fallout-heading-west-coast-8740/

http://www.redress.cc/americas/pjballes20110317

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=37.037612&lon=-116.024707&z=14.1&r=0&src=msl

80,000 U.S. Cancers Caused by Bomb Test Fallout - 15,000 of Them Fatal Critics Call for Public Health Response, Compensation, Radiation Truth Commission

http://whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.nukewatch.com/quarterly/spring02/sp022.html
http://whatreallyhappened.com/#ixzz1GpbmSf5Y

Thinker2,
People have been scratching their brains for a long time looking for
another base load source. No conspiracy theory can explain the lack of
a solution as there is such an enormous amount of money to be made from
finding the silver bullet any such pact would collapse immediately.

Re reprocessing; try google, there have been a number of articles in
recent times. I first heard about it about 10 years ago from a friend
in the nuclear business and as he said, by the time you exhaust the
number of recycling process the waste is very small and has quite low
radio activity.

Heinberg in his book peak everything says peak uranium is about 2025
I think, but it all depends on what price will the cutoff happen.

There might well be one of those fundamental energy physics limits
that means we have used all the best energy dense methods and that
we are up against fundamental physics.

bazz quote..''fundamental physics''
is one of the scams

fundimental physics says no energy can be created
but the joe cell dosnt create 'energy'..
it taps into unused energy

much like a key opens a door
or a watergate opens to a lake

we have many other enwergies
but they are able to be liberated[accesed]..
by such cheap and simple means..they cant find ways to get huge income from them..

the joe cell costs less that 100 bucks
from then on there is only cost free driving

these wont be built anytime soon
because we are no where near running out[let alone anywhere near peak oil peak coal and peak gas]..in a few hundred years maybe then we will get the free energies

bu8t as long as some corperation [with govt affluence
and flawed 'fundamental physics' holds franchise..over limited money making resources]..

they will ridicule and supress these cheap energy alternatives..in use in many areas..right now..

as easy to make
..as they are to redicule
with..'fundamental physics'..that ignores they even egsist..

the flat earth theory..still egsists..
as long as they make a buck ...from people believing spin