Not sure how serious you were about shooting the waste up in space - it's bound to fail and pollute the Earth's atmosphere - with plutonium being one of the most poisonous substances known, death of mankind, no doubt.
As serious as the first guy that said back in the early part of the 20th century that some day you'd be able to get hot soup in 2 minutes.
I'm not a proponent of nuclear power but it does have its place, and for some situation there is no better solution currently. Nuclear powered submarines for example, the same thing for aircraft carriers. It's storing and disposing of the spent fuel that's the problem, but that's not anything that is really that technically difficult to do.. storing it long term. The problem is the short term storage for the decade or so that the spent rods remain superheated.
Energy consumption reduction, increased efficiency, and intelligent design. We don't have to build homes in the middle of the fooking Arizona desert, but we do... We have the capability today, to build home that are near energy neutral but we don't.
We'll only do something about it, when instead of having a 300 year supply of oil, we're down to a few decades worth of the stuff. In the mean time, I'll hope for a cheaper means of alternative energy to become available hopefully in the next couple of generations.
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Before you go around and ridicule other people's opinions or make assumptions about a poster, maybe try to be a bit more open-minded about things.
