What are the advantages and disadvantages of fossil fuels?
I have added numbers to identify different answers to make this more manageable. Some interesting points are being made. In A3 Advantages, it is stated nuclear can be dangerous. This is true, but nuclear power is the most closely regulated and licensed power producing technology, at least in the western world. We all know what happened at Chernobyl, but that was in a state run on communist command principles where management rode roughshod over technical matters, and hopefully won’t be repeated. However just think how many thousands of men have been killed in coal mining accidents over centuries, in many different countries, and more recently in off-shore oil drilling. Only a few weeks ago we had 16 dead in a helicopter crash ferrying men from an oil rig in the North Sea, and it’s by no means the first such crash. Oil rigs have been known to blow up with many casualties. Obtaining fossil fuels, apart from actually using them, is still a dangerous industry, far more dangerous than nucle
