Energy

The cleanest form of nuclear power is the sun. The amount of energy hitting Earth is more than 10,000 times what we need. If we achieve even 1 percent efficiency at low cost and we can store the energy, we'll have enough for nine and a half billion people without polluting the world. The laws of physics say it's possible. We don't have to invent something better than the sun. It's the sun that gives us solar, hydro, the wind, and the waves.

The sun has been storing fossil fuels for hundreds of millions of years and we're using them up in hundreds of years, so that's a problem.

You can listen to the string quartet on the Titanic and enjoy the last glass of champagne, or you can fix this problem. There's an old expression from Winston Churchill that "America invariably does the right thing after exhausting all other possibilities." We don't have time for that anymore. What are you going to say to your kids and grandkids? "I'm sorry; you will be poorer and have less opportunity than I did. You will live in a world that is far more polluted than the world I was born into." Come on. There's no zero-sum game here. It's just like the green revolution or the Industrial Revolution: In developed countries, these gave everyone better lives. There's no law of physics that says the whole society can't benefit.