Nuclear energy is the answer to the energy declines of oil and natural gas? I don't think so unless I am missing something important here.

How can nuclear energy replace the diesel fuel that powers a truck full of produce across the world's highways. How does nuclear energy power the millions of gasoline powered cars on the world's roads?

Nuclear energy in and of itself is also a fossil fuel with a limited shelf life. Nuclear energy will be good for electricity going to homes and businesses replacing oil and natural gas. To this I agree to some extent.

However a better energy solution needs to be found and exploited. It may be a combination of wind energy, wave energy, ground based solar energy, and space based solar arrays.

But nuclear energy alone will not solve the decline in fossil fuels that will eventually spark a global economic collapse between 2015 and 2020.

It will be 2008 and 2009 all over again, only this time there will be no recovery of high gasoline and diesel fuel prices.

This information has been well documented on the internet in Peak Oil articles.

I give Putin a B+ for effort though. However the Russian Government has to do a lot more serious planning to deal with this crisis that will be both national and global in only 5 to 10 years time.

Solutions are available to side step the future collapse of world financial markets, but mankind needs to stop and re-evaluate what it values to base a country's money supply on.

Currently energy resources and rare minerals are the basis of a country's money supply. In the future the basis of a country's money supply must be its people and their ability to do work to benefit their community, city, state and country.

With this new monetary financial system in place, the demise of oil and gas energy resources will not topple the country's financial infra structure because it will be independent of cheap energy resources like oil and natural gas.

Arnold Vinette

Nuclear power has been used extensively in France and Japan. Nuclear power can power electric cars. Australia has a lot of uranium right now and they are to politically correct to use it for energy. Chernobyl was an old design and a friend told me it was sexual revenge. Sabotage. All the safeties were turned off.... Why the Russian government would want people to know what happened at Chernobyl is beyond me.

A researcher at MIT recently used a 'virus to split water' into hydrogen and oxygen. Google it or see full text here.

...One main goal in the renewable energy field is to find an efficient, inexpensive way to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen could then be used as a fuel source for vehicles or fuel cells. Typically, an electric current breaks the water down. Now, there’s a new water-splitter: a virus. M.I.T.’s Angela Belcher took her cue from plants, where special pigments capture solar energy in photosynthesis, involving the splitting of water.

Belcher and her team took a harmless virus called M13. They engineered it so that one end carries a catalyst—iridium oxide. Bound at the other end are light-sensitive pigments, zinc porphyrins. The porphyrins capture light energy, and transmit it along the virus, acting as a wire, to the other end, activating the catalyst. Which splits water into oxygen and the constituents of hydrogen, a proton and electron. The work appears in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. [See http://bit.ly/aP4HCN]

The scientists are working on ways to recombine the protons and electrons back into hydrogen atoms and then molecules of H2. They’re also seeking a cheaper catalyst than iridium. But the work could light one path to the eventual production of cleaner energy...
—Cynthia Graber
Taken from http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=engineered-virus-harnesses-light-to-10-04-14

Nuclear power will buy some time until something better comes along. New generation reactors are much safer. Thorium reactors are even safer. Thorium reactors weren't used because current nuclear reactors were used because they have 'waste' for making nuclear powered weapons.

Editor delete second post please. Telecommuting can save a lot of gas whether distance learning or most real office or industrial work. 4 10 day work weeks would save gas and increase quality time for the family. Time not in traffic in. Time that costs, rubles and gas. There is more than one way to conserve energy.