My Biased Views

Why are there no nuclear-powered commercial airplanes?

We don't have nuclear-powered planes because of multiple problems:

First  -- nuclear generators need a lot of room to operate, so it would be hard to put/install one on a plane. 

Second  --  no pilot would want to be sitting next to a nuclear generator for their flight; the radioactivity, if uncontained, would be catastrophic.

Therefore...  and, this is just my opinion...  I would think that we would still need to use fossil fuels, petroleum crude oil, jet fuel, even if the rest of the USA went GREEN...

Cruise ships and Naval Vessels are large enough to install fusion reactors for nuclear power but the rest of us will have to settle for electric cars, buses, trains, and motorcycles...

It also makes sense to convert our homes, apartment complexes, farms, office buildings over to SOLAR ENERGY rather than even think about nuclear fusion there...  although, we can build and maintain nuclear power plants to supplement the SOLAR...

All my hand tools nowadays run off of batteries, including my weed eater and blower, and the small tiller that I use for small areas is powered by electricity via an extension cord.

SO...  it is really unreasonable to think that the USA or the entire world (for that matter) is going to go completely GREEN...  if we want to continue using commercial airplanes to fly us from one location to another...  and yet, those who are pushing the GREEN AGENDA have never mentioned that we will still need fossil fuel for them...  isn't that kinda misleading the public?

The one big issue I have with electric cars is not the charging for local travel at night while you are sleeping but the charging if you ever decided to go on vacation where you will need to recharge en route.  It takes 8-12 hours to recharge a vehicle...  so what do you do for those 8-12 hours that you need to recharge?

Let's say you are halfway to Myrtle Beach, SC and you need to recharge and it is 2pm...  The restaurants don't have charging stations.  The convenience stores don't have charging stations.  The motels don't have charging stations...  so, once you find a charging station...  what if all the slots are taken by other people waiting 8-12 hours to recharge their vehicle...  DO YOU SIT IN YOUR ELECTRIC CAR AND WAIT IN THE HOT SUN?

If we do have a huge push towards electric vehicles because the cost of gasoline is so high and the government refuses to extract oil locally and keeps pipelines closed, then I will have no desire to go on vacation and will find ALTERNATIVE WAYS to enjoy a vacation.

This is what economists call SUBSTITUTION...  when a product exceeds a certain price, the buyer will simply substitute another similar product at a lower cost...  one day a winner and a moneymaker, the next day a loser, and the company folds.  

GOOD OLE AMERICAN PROGRESS...