I'd say if any society knows the long term effects of radiation exposure on the population, it's Japan. Whether they are open and truly honest about the effects of exposure are a different matter.Quote:
Originally Posted by chuck34
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I'd say if any society knows the long term effects of radiation exposure on the population, it's Japan. Whether they are open and truly honest about the effects of exposure are a different matter.Quote:
Originally Posted by chuck34
Exactly that type of thing, yes!Quote:
Originally Posted by nigelred5
RaceQuote:
Originally Posted by race aficionado
Please read the responses to the Blog you posted. It's claims are ridiculed and the Author fails in his defence.
I am fully behind renewables but they are something that can and should suppliment Nuclear. It's folly to think otherwise.
This response sums it up for me:
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<LI sizset="128" sizcache="54">DrAlessandro 253382 <LI class=comment-datetime>22 Mar 2011 3:49pm 1300834183 1300852183
Unfortunately, this is erroneous. Solar PV at absolute maximum, with 100% efficient cells, can generate only 3MW/acre. A standard nuclear (LWR) plant generates 50 times that, and does it 24/7. Solar nets about 1/4 its specified max per day. And, weather extremely impacts solar output, which is why Germany, even covering all its farm land, can't rely on solar's present 1/1000 of nuclear's output. Then, there's the absurd land sacrifice for massed PV arrays.
There are 3 pieces of an overall energy solution: efficiency (we waste >50% of generation today); local solar (distributed generation on existing structures); and safe nuclear power (developed 40 years ago by US ORNL and allowed to languish). The Chinese are now taking all our work and running with it (thank goodness they're not dummies too)...
http://energyfromthorium.com/2011/01...tmsr/#comments
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02...a_thorium_bet/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/c...h-thorium.html
Anyone interested in why the Chinese are interested...
http://tinyurl.com/25mgqkd and http://tinyurl.com/yb2qgex
For an interesting read of how we've indeed been nuclear dummies for decades...
http://energyfromthorium.com/pdf/Civ...clearPower.pdf and http://tinyurl.com/ye6leml
We currently consume energy worldwide at the rate of what 50,000 Olympians can generate working 24/7 as hard as they can, per capita. Yes, each of us has 50,000 energy-producing slaves. And, we don't feed them (OMG, what if we had to?). So we should then grasp how foolish we've been in not addressing energy waste as well as safe generation. Burning 3 cubic miles of oil each year is something our scientists knew was unsustainable before most of us here were born. And, before oil, Arrhenius warned in 1896 & 1905 that burning coal would be problematic around 3000AD (despite being a Nobellist & the father of industrial chemistry, he didn't know we'd be even more addicted to oil).
We're so far behind, hundreds of millions around the world will suffer for our ignorance over the next decades. Time to get with it. Efficiency, solar PV on local structures, plus safe nuclear power, solve the problem -- too late for millions, but as the old country saying goes: "There's no substitute for human stupidity". I also like that we create our own problems with our "opposable thumbs and obdurate minds". Best of all is Walt Kelley's Pogo: "I've seen the enemy and he is us".
Feel free to call, if only for your kids & grandkids.
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Dr. A Cannara
650-400-3071
Give him a bell and perhaps he will open your eyes. The big problem is Carbons, not Plutonium.
I'm a doomed quoter! I'm doooooomed!!!!! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Retro Formula 1
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Thorium.
Not possible to have an uncontrollable chain reaction thus no chance of China Syndrome.
Why was it poo poo'd? Because it did not create Plutonium as a by-product and thus was of no use to the weapons manufacturers who's wallets are the deepest.
Also;
see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/c...h-thorium.html
“There is no chain reaction. Fission dies the moment you switch off the photon beam. There are not enough neutrons for it continue of its own accord. The plans were shelved because thorium does not produce plutonium for bombs. As a happy bonus, it can burn up plutonium and toxic waste from old reactors, reducing radio-toxicity and acting as an eco-cleaner.”
Naw, not doomed. The more articles are discussed, the clearer things become :)Quote:
Originally Posted by race aficionado
Who knows, in 10 years, or 50, we might be moaning about why we need wind farms when there are much better sustainable means.
Fingers crossed.
Algae Based fules are coming a long way. I know they can make petrol, diesel and jet fuel already. The best part is, besides production, all the infrastructure is already there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
Another guy in aus was using algae in large plastic bags to produce hydrogen. Several acres will produce enough for a small town. Still early stages though.
What about when it's dark?Quote:
Originally Posted by race aficionado
Snuggle :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
You turn on the lights. Duh!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
:o
. . . or snuggle if convenient.