Originally posted by: JASANITY
hmm, maybe the fatal pollution of the environment...where we LIVE.
Originally posted by: K1052
Originally posted by: JASANITY
hmm, maybe the fatal pollution of the environment...where we LIVE.
Where is your scorn for all the other industries (and it is a ton of them) that dump their wastes directly into the biosphere?
Nuclear waste is at least kept contained in a relatively few spots.
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Originally posted by: K1052
Originally posted by: JASANITY
hmm, maybe the fatal pollution of the environment...where we LIVE.
Where is your scorn for all the other industries (and it is a ton of them) that dump their wastes directly into the biosphere?
Nuclear waste is at least kept contained in a relatively few spots.
We do not need scorn, we need action. We have known for decades and decades that we would reach a point where the cost of the extraction of fossil fuel would exceed the point where our economy could function and continue to extract them. But there are powerful political forces that make up the status quo whose personal economic wealth is derived from those fuels.
Unfortunately a capitalistic society places the interest of self above the interest of the many and those with the greatest personal ambitions insure themselves the greatest rewards. For these reasons, including the narcoleptic buying binge induced in the population by billions of advertisements created by these same power controllers to magnify their already bloated personal fortunes and the stinginess of the salaries they pay, the American people are forced to devote most of their time running harder and harder as the hill they run up gets steeper.
Almost everything now is about now and today including quarterly earnings. In politics it is exactly the same. What can I do that will get me reelected. Naturally that is to coddle to the interests of wealth and among them are the fossil fuel companies.
So as the day of reckoning approaches and the power folk look around for a new gig, naturally they will send up the message that our savior is nuclear power. Only in keeping you at the end of a drip line can they keep you comatose for bleeding. Only when they can keep you subjected to you need for light and heat can then send you a monthly bill and keep you docile to their needs.
Solar power is like the right to bear arms. If the people arm themselves with solar they will not be as easily ruled. Of course they will not be as easily terrorized either. But the more green power generation is distributed the safer society will be from the loss of a power source by any means.
So I have been against fossil fuels since almost the first day I began to think. But because the wise have understood how astonishingly little forethought humans really apply, they have devised warnings of advise such as: "Don't jump out of the frying pan into the fire. Again, insanity is doing more of the same and expecting a different result.
We are going to make something of a filthy mess just to convert to green. Our goal should be to walk through the forest and leave the smallest footprint that we can. This will leave the beauty of the earth to future generations.
Choose you poison with care. Maybe when we have nanobots that can disassemble radioactive isotopes we can go nuclear. But of course we had better have nanobots that disassemble nanobots first in case some pin head creates a nanobot that disassembles anything.
Originally posted by: cjgallen
"The average radiation dose to people living within 10 miles of the plant [Three Mile Island] was eight millirem, and no more than 100 millirem to any single individual. Eight millirem is about equal to a chest X-ray, and 100 millirem is about a third of the average background level of radiation received by U.S. residents in a year."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island
The Chernobyl plant had a dangerously large positive temperature coefficient, which lead to thermal runaway. All our reactors are built with low negative temperature coefficients.
Originally posted by: Tom
Originally posted by: cjgallen
"The average radiation dose to people living within 10 miles of the plant [Three Mile Island] was eight millirem, and no more than 100 millirem to any single individual. Eight millirem is about equal to a chest X-ray, and 100 millirem is about a third of the average background level of radiation received by U.S. residents in a year."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island
The Chernobyl plant had a dangerously large positive temperature coefficient, which lead to thermal runaway. All our reactors are built with low negative temperature coefficients.
The point isn't that we were lucky at 3 mile island, unless you are saying that what happened there is the worst that could have happened ?
Pebble-bed reactors are not prone to meltdowns (almost impossible), and thermoexpansive polymer reactors physically cannot melt down... so with regards to NEW nuclear power plants, the issue of meltdowns is moot.Originally posted by: Tom
Originally posted by: cjgallen
"The average radiation dose to people living within 10 miles of the plant [Three Mile Island] was eight millirem, and no more than 100 millirem to any single individual. Eight millirem is about equal to a chest X-ray, and 100 millirem is about a third of the average background level of radiation received by U.S. residents in a year."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island
The Chernobyl plant had a dangerously large positive temperature coefficient, which lead to thermal runaway. All our reactors are built with low negative temperature coefficients.
The point isn't that we were lucky at 3 mile island, unless you are saying that what happened there is the worst that could have happened ?
Originally posted by: Meuge
Pebble-bed reactors are not prone to meltdowns (almost impossible), and thermoexpansive polymer reactors physically cannot melt down... so with regards to NEW nuclear power plants, the issue of meltdowns is moot.Originally posted by: Tom
Originally posted by: cjgallen
"The average radiation dose to people living within 10 miles of the plant [Three Mile Island] was eight millirem, and no more than 100 millirem to any single individual. Eight millirem is about equal to a chest X-ray, and 100 millirem is about a third of the average background level of radiation received by U.S. residents in a year."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island
The Chernobyl plant had a dangerously large positive temperature coefficient, which lead to thermal runaway. All our reactors are built with low negative temperature coefficients.
The point isn't that we were lucky at 3 mile island, unless you are saying that what happened there is the worst that could have happened ?
As for solar power, I am all for it - it may indeed allow us to drastically cut down civilian electricity consumption (25-50% is my guess), but it is not sufficient, nor is it scalable to produce industrial power requirements (sorry, but I see mile-wide solar arrays as pollution). Hydroelectric plants destroy whole regions, and wind power is a myth that will never come to fruition.
The future is in fusion power... but until we can get a working plant (unlikely while there are fossil fuels, since energy companies will not allow the projects to proceed) we must choose the lesser evil... and the new type nuclear reactors will provide us with that.
WTF are you talking about?Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Mothers are also not likely to allow nuclear power to proceed also, so lets go in a direction that makes more sense.Originally posted by: Meuge
Pebble-bed reactors are not prone to meltdowns (almost impossible), and thermoexpansive polymer reactors physically cannot melt down... so with regards to NEW nuclear power plants, the issue of meltdowns is moot.Originally posted by: Tom
Originally posted by: cjgallen
"The average radiation dose to people living within 10 miles of the plant [Three Mile Island] was eight millirem, and no more than 100 millirem to any single individual. Eight millirem is about equal to a chest X-ray, and 100 millirem is about a third of the average background level of radiation received by U.S. residents in a year."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island
The Chernobyl plant had a dangerously large positive temperature coefficient, which lead to thermal runaway. All our reactors are built with low negative temperature coefficients.
The point isn't that we were lucky at 3 mile island, unless you are saying that what happened there is the worst that could have happened ?
As for solar power, I am all for it - it may indeed allow us to drastically cut down civilian electricity consumption (25-50% is my guess), but it is not sufficient, nor is it scalable to produce industrial power requirements (sorry, but I see mile-wide solar arrays as pollution). Hydroelectric plants destroy whole regions, and wind power is a myth that will never come to fruition.
The future is in fusion power... but until we can get a working plant (unlikely while there are fossil fuels, since energy companies will not allow the projects to proceed) we must choose the lesser evil... and the new type nuclear reactors will provide us with that.
I predict, based on my research into solar power for my parents' home. We are on the waiting list for solar panel installations, and I have estimates from the installers in terms of what we can expect.Originally posted by: Moonbeam
You guess 25-50% and you 'say' wind won't work but you can't predict what can come from a shoot for the moon war on energy focused on green applications.
Please show me how you're going to get the solar panels there, then how you're going to get the energy back... and then how you're going to do all of this while:Originally posted by: Moonbeam
And don't forget there's lots of nice spots to farm sunlight on the moon.
So let me see - you want to beam gigawatts of microwaves at the Earth surface... and you're talking about the risk of nuclear reactors as being too much?
WTF are you on?Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Here is some data on the self reproductive capacities of solar technology. The autonomous reproduction of modular solar cells in comparison to the duplicating a nuclear power plant will be a piece of cake by comparison.
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Originally posted by: Meuge
Three pages ago I asked you to provide some evidence to substantiate this claim, and you failed to do so... now - you're repeating it again.Originally posted by: techs
10-20-30 MILLION people
The worst imaginable disaster already happened at Chernobyl, in the absence of a safety dome, and under the worst conditions. Yet only 20-30 thousand people were seriously affected.
So tell me... where, in your apparently much more advanced knowledge of nuclear engineering and disaster management, did you find a number that is 3 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE HIGHER!
Here comes the hubris again, Meuge, your blind faith in the notion that we've seen the worst disaster. Neither you nor I can possibly imagine all the things that can happen. What we do know without any doubt at all is that all things being equal we are much better off without nuclear. I say we don't open the stupid door till we have put real and concentrated effort into alternatives. To jump up and down about nuclear with your blithe indifference to the future is simply not very mature. Pretend for a second that no energy is released by splitting an atom. What are the solutions now. Apply your pinhead to that question. You might surprise yourself and find a new toy.I would have thought a pinhead like your, for example, would have already realized that the CO2 from burning coal means we won't need to burn it any more to heat our homes in winter. Nobody will want Nuclear Winter.
Originally posted by: Meuge
WTF are you on?Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Here is some data on the self reproductive capacities of solar technology. The autonomous reproduction of modular solar cells in comparison to the duplicating a nuclear power plant will be a piece of cake by comparison.
The paper talks about the economics and efficiency of solar panel design... where the heck did you get "reproductive capacity"... what - you gave solar panels DNA now?
Originally posted by: Acanthus
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Originally posted by: Meuge
Three pages ago I asked you to provide some evidence to substantiate this claim, and you failed to do so... now - you're repeating it again.Originally posted by: techs
10-20-30 MILLION people
The worst imaginable disaster already happened at Chernobyl, in the absence of a safety dome, and under the worst conditions. Yet only 20-30 thousand people were seriously affected.
So tell me... where, in your apparently much more advanced knowledge of nuclear engineering and disaster management, did you find a number that is 3 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE HIGHER!
Here comes the hubris again, Meuge, your blind faith in the notion that we've seen the worst disaster. Neither you nor I can possibly imagine all the things that can happen. What we do know without any doubt at all is that all things being equal we are much better off without nuclear. I say we don't open the stupid door till we have put real and concentrated effort into alternatives. To jump up and down about nuclear with your blithe indifference to the future is simply not very mature. Pretend for a second that no energy is released by splitting an atom. What are the solutions now. Apply your pinhead to that question. You might surprise yourself and find a new toy.I would have thought a pinhead like your, for example, would have already realized that the CO2 from burning coal means we won't need to burn it any more to heat our homes in winter. Nobody will want Nuclear Winter.
Moonbeam, you arent conveying any thought.
Youre turning "youre a stupid poopie head and nuclear power will kill us all" into 40 paragraphs, and posting no backup data to suggest any of what you say is correct.
How do you propose this "super disaster" to occur? there isnt enough fuel in a reactor to have an atomic bomb - like reaction.
And you talk about hubris to ME?Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Sort of but I apologize. I have this fertile scientific mind that makes huge leaps in logic because of my multidisciplinary scientific education and well, I suppose just plain gift, so I often forget that what is obvious to me, the steps from hither to thither, are for others up in the clouds.Originally posted by: Meuge
WTF are you on?Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Here is some data on the self reproductive capacities of solar technology. The autonomous reproduction of modular solar cells in comparison to the duplicating a nuclear power plant will be a piece of cake by comparison.
The paper talks about the economics and efficiency of solar panel design... where the heck did you get "reproductive capacity"... what - you gave solar panels DNA now?
I think you should occupy yourself with making an appointment with a psychiatrist instead.Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I can be such a pin head at times.At the moment I have been occupying myself with contemplation of the coming Singularity.
Originally posted by: Meuge
And you talk about hubris to ME?Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Sort of but I apologize. I have this fertile scientific mind that makes huge leaps in logic because of my multidisciplinary scientific education and well, I suppose just plain gift, so I often forget that what is obvious to me, the steps from hither to thither, are for others up in the clouds.Originally posted by: Meuge
WTF are you on?Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Here is some data on the self reproductive capacities of solar technology. The autonomous reproduction of modular solar cells in comparison to the duplicating a nuclear power plant will be a piece of cake by comparison.
The paper talks about the economics and efficiency of solar panel design... where the heck did you get "reproductive capacity"... what - you gave solar panels DNA now?
I think you should occupy yourself with making an appointment with a psychiatrist instead.Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I can be such a pin head at times.At the moment I have been occupying myself with contemplation of the coming Singularity.
He can't, because 50 years from now nobody will even think about putting windmills all over the place, and beaming deadly ionizing microwaves into the earth's atmosphere (he's insane, as it would annihilate the ozone layer, heat up the atmosphere, and likely cause serious meteorological consequences)... nobody will care because fusion power will be forthcoming. We are but a step away, with only 2 major problems left:Originally posted by: Stunt
Still going, eh moonie?
Save your debate for 50 years from now when your ideas may actually be feasible.
Nope. Not true. First, I suppose he means energy. Regardless, hydrogen, yes folks, hydrogen is the answer. Fusion.we all know it is the most power-per-weight ratio of any material, by far.
Well, actually Manganese (Mn) would probably provide the most power per unit mass, since it's the heaviest element that can still undergo fusion.Originally posted by: DrPizza
Wow, I usually stay far away from P&N... But, this thread wasn't that bad of a read.
However, I'd like to point out just a couple of things:
1. The OP is wrong on the first line:Nope. Not true. First, I suppose he means energy. Regardless, hydrogen, yes folks, hydrogen is the answer. Fusion.we all know it is the most power-per-weight ratio of any material, by far.
