Nuclear Power is not going away.......or is it?

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Originally Posted by race aficionado

You turn on the lights. Duh!!!
:o

. . . or snuggle if convenient.

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Which are powered by? I'm all for renewables, I like hydro, I like solar and I like wind power, but you also need something which can operate at full capacity 24/7 no matter how cold, dark, windy, windless or dry the weather is. Nuclear power in conjunction with renewables is the way forward.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Which are powered by? I'm all for renewables, I like hydro, I like solar and I like wind power, but you also need something which can operate at full capacity 24/7 no matter how cold, dark, windy, windless or dry the weather is. Nuclear power in conjunction with renewables is the way forward.

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Okay.
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Originally Posted by race aficionado

Okay.
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What is your alternative?

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Originally Posted by Daniel

What is your alternative?

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I'm sure Steve Jobs and his team will come up with something soon . . . . :D

Daniel, I am one, as you now well know, that is totally against Nuclear power.

What am I for? Well . . . . for starters, something that is not nuclear.

Basically I am against anything that can kill me when I am not asking for trouble - for example, putting my fork into an electric socket will fry me for sure but if left alone, it will do the job. What produces that electricity that is non nuclear? My choice is whatever won't pollute our planet like nuclear and fossil fuels that emit crap in the air that can be damaging to any living being.

Sorry my answer is not specific (other than the iEnergy one) but I only know what I know.

So there.
:s mokin:

Those ideals are just that an ideal. If you take out all methods of electricity generation which doesn't involve fossil fuels or nuclear that leaves you with very little.

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Originally Posted by race aficionado

I'm sure Steve Jobs and his team will come up with something soon . . . . :D

Daniel, I am one, as you now well know, that is totally against Nuclear power.

What am I for? Well . . . . for starters, something that is not nuclear.

Basically I am against anything that can kill me when I am not asking for trouble - for example, putting my fork into an electric socket will fry me for sure but if left alone, it will do the job. What produces that electricity that is non nuclear? My choice is whatever won't pollute our planet like fossil fuels that emit crap in the air that can be damaging to any living being.

Sorry my answer is not specific (other than the iEnergy one) but I only know what I know.

So there.
:s mokin:

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But neither my PC or your Mac will run on good intentions or a nice idea. Nuclear is the least polluting technology at the moment which is capable or running 24/7 and is based on something which in relative terms isn't running out anytime soon.

My parents have a solar hot water unit on their roof which is fantastic, in summer you have blisteringly hot water and even in winter in Australia you do get some hot water out of it in the winter but it will need to be boosted by electricity during winter. This sort of technology is fantastic but if you had to rely on pure solar energy for hot water or energy then you'd be without hot water or electricity when you probably need it the most.

I'm all for wind power as well, we have wind turbines off the coast here and also inland too, I think they're very beautiful bits of technology but if we relied on them for energy 24/7 we'd be screwed.....

Good intentions don't light or heat houses sadly.

What about solar thermal? What about some of the new ways of producing hydrogen? What about geothermal or wave / tide power. While I do not like nuke power and believe it has no place is aus, it does have its place. But it is not the only solution.

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

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.

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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.”

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Finally after years of reading posts in this forum , i find something worth knowing, besides the jokes in the old joke thread.

thanks

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Originally Posted by rah

What about solar thermal? What about some of the new ways of producing hydrogen? What about geothermal or wave / tide power. While I do not like nuke power and believe it has no place is aus, it does have its place. But it is not the only solution.

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Solution to what?

Solution to meeting the energy demands of the world, presumably?!