I was wondering whether this thread would develop any traction. Watched the thread for a bit, with only Pablo's initial post and Dinopello's first comment being the only activity for a while.
I'll chime in with the folks who were encouraged by the reaction to the movie. I watched it not that long ago on Netflix myself.
It was, I admit, Radioactive Wolves which completely changed my mind on nuclear power a couple of years ago. Since then I've only continued to develop a deeper sense that nuclear power is probably the only way we might (repeat might) get out of this mess. I've followed Guy McPherson's blog for a while too. It may be too late, but if we have, say until 2050 instead of 2030, we might have a chance. Maybe.
I'm old enough to have watched The China Syndrome during it's theatrical release. I lived through Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. I was terrified of nuclear power as a result of all those events.
Come to find out my fear was utterly and completely misplaced. I've tried to get some others in my local community to take another look at nuclear as a result. Having a bit of luck, actually.
To pstarr, I've thought we could use the extra electricity to actively pull GHGs down and reprocess them into either a solid matrix suitable for burying in the many open pit mines we've dug, or alternatively converting it into some useful short hydrocarbon chains for fuel. Both of those activities are thermodynamically intensive, but hey, when you're running off an energy source a million times more energy dense than oil, not a problem.
So definitely a thumbs up for Pandora's Promise from this neck of the woods