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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."
you shut the fuck up as I slide my cock down the back of your throat.
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
I love anal...
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.
Slashdot SERIOUSLY needs to implement spellchecking as a feature of its software.
The error rate on main page articles is atrocious.
"And I would like to know why leftists are so blindingly anti-nuclear. I am left oriented yet I think using nuclear energy is perfectly fine."
No wonder. You've apparently learned about nuclear energy by reading 50's-era nuclear safety documentaries:
"Consider the amount of dioxins and radioactivity produced by a coal plant. Is that better?"
Consider an accident at a coal plant - after a few MONTHS the mess is cleaned up. Consider an accident at a nuclear plant - after a few THOUSAND YEARS the mess is cleaned up.
"Some people put granite in their houses. It is radioactive but people do not seem to care. The Sun emits radioactivity."
Uh huh. And if I hold my breath for two seconds, I don't die. Therefore, I can survive in DEEP SPACE.
Matter of degree, Sherlock.
"In fact if it was not for radioactivity we probably would not even be here because evolution would have been slower!"
And if there had been any more (e.g. Venus), we would _definitely_ not be here.
"The fact is humans tolerate a certain amount of radiation."
Just like I can tolerate only a certain amount of stupidity.
"Regarding Plutonium being poisonous do you know Caffeine is more poisonous than Plutonium? Think about it next time you have a cup of Coffee or drink Jolt."
Regarding Plutonium, did you know that Marie Curie died in agony of multiple debilitating cancers because she touched the stuff in microscopic amounts? Did you know that the pages of her own notebooks are STILL radioactive, at hazardous levels, today, even though she is long dead?
Think about that the next time you spill your coffee on your shirt.
"Nagasaki was nuked with Plutonium and people live there now. A nuclear plant meltdown makes way less radiation than any nuclear weapon."
This is so disastrously misinformed I don't know where to begin. How are you even able to post on Slashdot? Are you dictating to someone?
"There are nuclear plant designs which are inherently safer. They shutdown automatically without outside control when there is a problem."
You can't "shut down" the process of radioactive decay. You can only shield it. I agree that there are some nuclear plant designs that are safer than others, but none of them can actually be "shut down".
"If we actually recycled nuclear fuel there would be less or even zero waste. But due to some peaceniks with fear of proliferation we do not and the waste is piling up."
Yeah. It's all the peacenik's fault that we have nuclear waste. My estimation of your sanity drops with every word.
"I am politically left oriented and, yes, green. I think we should spend more money on renewables. I think we should introduce measures to reduce CO and CO2. I think we should ban single-hulled oil tankers and if possible reduce oil consumption."
Great. What does this have to do with a lot of outrageous misinformation regarding radioactivity and nuclear waste?
"Being against nuclear power of any form whatsoever is blindingly dumb and I am glad people are starting to smart up."
You've got a long way to go yourself, pal.
"Nobody wants a nuclear power plant in their backyard but no one wants a water treatment plant in their backyard either."
Actually I would enjoy a water treatment plant in my backyard. Maybe then I'd feel safe drinking out of the tap.
"Maybe you would prefer we went back to the time honoured tradition of dumping untreated sewers directly on the river?"
What the hell does this have to do with nuclear waste?
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.