Teen designs compact nuclear reactor for recycling nuclear waste...

[SagaLore]

oh, and phys.org posted this gem: http://phys.org/news/2013-02-german-student-electromagnetic-harvester-recharge.html

ha! I guess he discovered induction and we just got lucky trasformers work untill now.

Wouldn't that cause whatever electric gadget is putting off the field to have to work harder while that battery charges?

 

[TwiceOver]

Isn't there something in the nuclear arms treaty that says we cannot reuse the waste? I thought I remember reading something about that thinking "Oops".

 

[lxskllr]

Isn't there something in the nuclear arms treaty that says we cannot reuse the waste? I thought I remember reading something about that thinking "Oops".

Treaties are easy to break. They already broke the Constitution. If you can fuck over your own people, everything else is gravy.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Please don't pretend wind farms are harmless, failures already killed more people than nuke plants in U.S.

http://toryaardvark.com/2011/03/18/wind-energy-has-killed-more-americans-than-nuclear/

Hmm what about the yummy RADIOACTIVE particles coal plants simply emit into the air than safely confined into waste in nuke plants? Hmm...

How many wind turbines is there compared to the number of nuke plants? I think 35 is quite a low number. There are probably more killed on hydro poles, does not mean hydro poles are dangerous, there is just a lot of them.

Wind and solar is probably one of the best energy sources. It is completely free other than the initial capital investment, and the one with the least impact on the environment. Hydroelectric is good too.

Nuclear is better than fossil fuel though. I would rather see all nuclear, than to see coal and other dirty power. But idealy everything should be wind, solar and hydroelectric. It would be doable, just need to add more wind turbines everywhere. Screw the people that say they make them sick. It's all in the head. They might kill a few birds here and there, but people think coal plants don't?

 

[Aikouka]

I think it's trust, not ignorance. Can we really trust others to properly manage something like that?...We thought BP could with oil rigs, but now we realize we can't. It only takes 1 time, it's not like we can allow for any mistakes, poor decisions..etc. We have to have trust and transparency.

For example, i have my life to live, i can't be bothered to be privy with who would be running the place, if they might be paying bribes, taking them or trying to be a cheapass....so no i don't want a powerplant in my backyard, not run by American's, that's for sure. I trusted BP and within my lifetime they have already failed me, historically it's not a bad ratio, but it's the point they were in a sensitive business that can cause serious harm. We may not have had a Chernobyl yet, but doesn't mean we won't either.

You say that I state that people are afraid because they are ignorant. I disagree with that statement. I said that they are afraid because they hold irrational fear to heart, which is just as you do here. They hold up any reason that they can muster to try to reassure them that their fears are valid. First, I'll point this out before someone calls you toward it in a more callous manner...

"so no i don't want a powerplant in my backyard, not run by American's, that's for sure. I trusted BP and within my lifetime they have already failed me"

What's wrong with Americans running a nuclear power plant? You state that it would be bad and then follow it up with an accident that was under British Petroleum's watch.

Honestly, the rest of your post is just full of irrational fear. To even compare a current-day nuclear power plant to Chernobyl or Fukushima is just ignorant.

I'm going to go on a bit of a tangent because this has been eating at me the whole time. You know the one thing that I've noticed while living in the south? These people are so full of irrational fear. It's almost ridiculous what sort of things that I've heard people speak about worrying them. After the Aurora, CO shooting, I told my friend that I'd be annoyed if my Batman showing was cancelled because of a lack of security. He said that he would feel alright. I was curious as to why, and I inquired. Apparently, he did not feel safe in the theater, and my response was, "statistically you are fine."

I just don't understand how people can live like that, but I guess that's the instinct on which religion preys.

 

[Train]

That is not some conspiracy BS, its a well known fact that lobbyists and big corp run our world.

yep, just like it's a well known fact they squashed the electric car.

 

[K1052]

Isn't there something in the nuclear arms treaty that says we cannot reuse the waste? I thought I remember reading something about that thinking "Oops".

No, Ford banned reprocessing in 1976 by presidental order on pretty flimsy terrorism concerns. Regan repealed the ban in the early 80s. The DOE is paying Duke Energy to build a plant to downmix weapons grade plutonium into reactor grade MOX fuel.

Spent reactor fuel can be reprocessed or reused but we just let it pile up at the reactor sites because of the political complications.

 

[Murloc]

It is completely free other than the initial capital investment, and the one with the least impact on the environment.

it doesn't matter if it's free after though (remember maintenance), it's the whole package that matters.
Least impact?
I'm not sure about it.
How much energy from coal do the chinese use to produce solar panels?

 

[herm0016]

Wouldn't that cause whatever electric gadget is putting off the field to have to work harder while that battery charges?

yep. the thing making the field will have to work harder, or it will degrade the field to the point that it is useless for whatever task it was designed, eg.: kill your wifi or bluetooth range. It is something that this kid did not think of, has been used for many many years, and is illegal.

 

[mnewsham]

What's wrong with Americans running a nuclear power plant? You state that it would be bad and then follow it up with an accident that was under British Petroleum's watch.

We all do know that BP hasn't been british run in years...right?

Hell the top 2 people in the company aren't even birtish, ones swedish the other is american.

 

[Red Squirrel]

it doesn't matter if it's free after though (remember maintenance), it's the whole package that matters.
Least impact?
I'm not sure about it.
How much energy from coal do the chinese use to produce solar panels?

That's a one time impact though. Here's hoping they can find more efficient ways to produce them, but production is something that happens once for their life. Burning coal or natural gas is something that happens 24/7 to produce power for general use. If everything is switched to hydro electric, wind and solar there would only be the one time impact and cost of producing these systems (per unit), then the impact and cost is rather low. Yeah there's maintenance too, which I was not thinking about, but still cheaper than having to burn a fuel.

Where I live we're fortunate that our power comes from hydroelectric, and we don't have lot of traffic, so our air is fairly clean. But when I go to a big city like Toronto I realize just how much we are polluting this planet. That's mostly because of cars though.