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Nucular Hydrogen Economy
Mark Baard writes "The hydrogen economy will at least in part be based on nukes. The DOE will build a pilot high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), which theoretically can co-generate electricity and hydrogen, side by side, inside a cheap modular unit."
Coverting the economy to hydrogen makes sense, both economically, politically and environmentaly, except doing so by way of nuclear power is just stupid. Nuclear power has never made sense after the 50, when people realized that the energy wasn't free, it created tons of ultra-deadly radioactive waste that we still haven't figured out how to handle properly, and that the availible supplies of enriched uranium and plutonium needed to produce the electricity would run out far sooner than oil, if used at the same pace.
I just wish politicians (this means you, US!!) would take their heads out of their asses long enough to realize that wind turbines alone could provide enough energy to power the whole planet without any sort of pollution and with prices comparable to oil. Throw in the various solar, geothermal, oceanic and other forms of clean renewable energy, and it makes you wonder who exactly is paying to keep the current oil/nuclear economy in place?
Renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, are emissions-free.
Not quite the whole story. Anyone looked at the industrial waste that making solar panels creates? IIRC, it's nontrivial.
Just a thought...
Do you know why the road less traveled by is littered with the bones of the unwary?
Yea, pronouncing it the same way the only Nuclear Engineer to occupy the White House is so wrong. How dim of him having a bit of an accent!
:-)
Now, for the real news, I am well ahead of the curve with my hydrogen powered Jeep! Glad to see these other folks following my lead
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
He is not bashed for his Teyaxus ayacsent. He is bashed for his intellect (or lack thereof.)
Is our children educated?
The DOD is just itching to test those nukes again and will subvert any cause to do so. Having the most hawkish administration since the Spanish American War pours more fuel on the fire.
A politically-motivated article in the Voice. Who woulda thunk? I thought Bush was supposed to be in bed with the oil companies. That's what everyone kept crying about. But now liberals are bitching about hydrogen. You just can't win...
Shame on Google.