Nuke Power!!!

[Weester]

From a "Green" Website!!

Using electricity does not pollute. Using electric motors, electric heaters and electric lights all result in zero air pollution. The problem with electricity is how to make it, because making electricity causes pollution. And amid anxiety and disruptions, the world nonetheless is experiencing the most spectacular energy-fueled industrial renaissance in human history. There isn't enough electricity being produced in the world at a time when world demand for electricity is skyrocketing, with no end in sight.

If the "hydrogen economy" ever took off, we'd need even more electricity since manufacturing hydrogen fuel generally requires massive amounts of electricity, in a process known as electrolysis. If grid electricity is used for automotive power ala hydrogen - or batteries for that matter - the world's electricity production would have to quadruple instead of merely double. Global energy consumption in 2005 is around 14,000 gigawatt-years (420 quadrillion BTUs) per year. Wind power contributes less than 1% of the total. Photovoltaic electricity contributes at best 1/10th of one percent of the total. Biofuel is going to help but it still generates greenhouse gas, and in most cases requires significant energy inputs to grow. Will these clean energy sources develop in time to replace fossil fuel and meet growing energy demand all by themselves?

When choosing what type of electrical power generation to develop, the trade-offs are stark. Pick your poison. Over the past 30 years there haven't been many new nuclear power plants developed in the USA or most of Europe, but they are the exception. Fortunately nuclear power technology has developed significantly in the last 30 years. A few years ago the article that follows, which is informative but unabashedly pro-nuclear, would have been condemned by 99% of environmentalists. But today nuclear power has become so much safer and concerns about greenhouse gasses have become so acute that growing numbers of environmentalists are dropping their opposition to nuclear power and instead are calling for more nuclear power plants. Imagine driving through Los Angeles, or Beijing, or Mexico City, in 2020, in a car that is powered by electricity coming from a nuclear power plant. Imagine all these mega-cities without one tiny wisp of smog.


When I declare that the U.S. desperately needs to become more like France, some of my friends get upset. But hold your anger, keep eating your Freedom Fries, and let me explain. The real reason to emulate the French is that 75% of their electrical power use is derived from nuclear reactors.


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Nuclear Power

[STAGE 2]

The greenies would never go for it.

[Electrajim]

You can't use a Windows OS in a nuke plant.
( I think it's in the EULA)

I'd love to have these things all over the country.

ElectraJim

[Weester]

"The greenies would never go for it."

a. This came from a greenie website.

b. There is not enough of them to stop it.


NUKE POWER!!!

[UNGN]

Get the Libs off the dime about Yucca Mtn and we'd have Nuke plants coming out of our Ears. Texas has 8 planned.

But no. You have to prove that 10,000 years from now there won't be above background level of radiation coming from a mountain in the middle of nowhere.

For the Children

[Weester]

The really cool part is that you can produce cheap hydrogen with the spent fuel rods!

2 Fer 1, cheap electricity and cheap hydrogen!

[STAGE 2]

Originally Posted by Weester

"The greenies would never go for it."

a. This came from a greenie website.

b. There is not enough of them to stop it.


NUKE POWER!!!

Well they've stopped it up till now and there isn't anything to suggest anything is going to change. The opinion of one guy matters squat.

[Weester]

"Well they've stopped it up till now and there isn't anything to suggest anything is going to change."


DUH, does the price of GAS ring a bell????

[steveX]

I have an idea.

Since the center of the earth is over 2,000 degree (super-nova).We are so good at drilling thousand of miles of pipeline into the earth for oil. Placing generator on the lowest point of the ocean floor. sea water can be pump below the surface to be heated by the earth core . This heat then turn the sea water into steam which will to the ocean floor station to spin turbine fans connected to generator. I will like to believe this power will last forever as long the equipment are maintain.



IF i was rich i will spend all my money on this source of power. If successful I would be the only one with eternal power, but am sure someone would kill me, and find bad theory/idea.

The ECO JUNKIE am sure will complain about the fish and the ocean environment.

[IEATV8S]

Electrical Pollution Solutions

[steveX]

Originally Posted by IEATV8S

Electrical Pollution Solutions

DAME IT.....WE`ER still going to die?

[IEATV8S]

Originally Posted by steveX

DAME IT.....WE`ER still going to die?

Damn, I thought voting for KOKO would SAVE US ALL! He's the MESSIAH isn't he????

[Electrajim]

If you really think how far technology has allowed us to drill, it hasn't even scratched the earths surface. It's amazing.

I hear some of the worlds best oil resources are located in the most inhospitable places.

It's too bad that there isn't a way to automate drilling for oil...and automate crab fishing. Have you seen Deadliest Catch on Discovery? Sheesh!!
Take the human element out of it for safety sake!!

ElectraJim

[slow87]

It goes way beyond the greenies. Lots of people are scared of nuclear plants or even dams for that matter. Solar or wind will be the future, simply because it's not scary.

[UNGN]

Originally Posted by slow87

It goes way beyond the greenies. Lots of people are scared of nuclear plants or even dams for that matter. Solar or wind will be the future, simply because it's not scary.

What is really scary is solar at night and wind on a calm day.

In Texas they are planning to add new Reactors at existing Nuke sites. Those that oppose it are labled dumbasses and asked to leave the state.

[The Blob]

Originally Posted by steveX

If successful I would be the only one with eternal power, but am sure someone would kill me, and find bad theory/idea.

You've said too much... I am afraid you already may be in danger.

[Weester]

"Since the center of the earth is over 2,000 degree (super-nova).We are so good at drilling thousand of miles of pipeline into the earth for oil. Placing generator on the lowest point of the ocean floor. sea water can be pump below the surface to be heated by the earth core . This heat then turn the sea water into steam which will to the ocean floor station to spin turbine fans connected to generator. I will like to believe this power will last forever as long the equipment are maintain."

Here ya go children...


Geothermal Energy

[steveX]

Originally Posted by The Blob

You've said too much... I am afraid you already may be in danger.

BY WHO?

[salvageV6]

By Weakster, he's a Jewish Navy Seal ya know!!!

He said it on the internet so it must be true.

Don't go near those fire hydrants in Queens.