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McCain Backs Nuclear Power
bagsc writes "Senator John McCain set out another branch of his energy policy agenda today, with a key point: 45 new nuclear power plants by 2030." So it finally appears that this discussion is back on the table. I'm curious how Nevada feels about this, as well as the Obama campaign. All it took was $4/gallon gas I guess. When it hits $5, I figure one of the campaigns will start to promote Perpetual Motion.
We only need enough fission fuel to last us for 50 years... after that we can count on fusion. Fusion is the future.
See: Pompei
Virginia is for lovers. EVE is for griefers.
Wise population centers do not locate themselves near large volcanoes. FTFM.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Also, you can power an entire metropolis by hugging a rainbow, if you just wish hard enough!
When the sky clouds over, are you going to sit in your own filth in the dark, like a Frenchman? No, you - and your neighbours and the the schools and hospitals - are going to start drawing from the grid.
In your dolphin-friendly future, where is that on-demand power going to magically appear from? No Star Trek technobabble: what's going to provide enough completely reliable power every cycle of every second of every minute of every day to keep the lights on and the intartubes pumping?
Well?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
How about a 1.21 gigawatt plant dedicated to time travel?
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
Doc Brown's stuff doesn't run on gigawatts, it runs in jiggawatts.
I'm not sure what those are, but that's clearly what he said.
I think it has something to do with dancing at a riot.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
Dirty pagans. We decent Christians blame it on St. Helen.
rj
There is no chance that there will be cars powered by "under the hood" nuclear reactors in the near future.
Why not, American cars are big enough.
You should contact security at the plant you visited, you shouldn't have been close enough to the waste for it to give you a warm glow.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Reprocessing is not being done. It is not even being proposed as a possibility. Nuclear plants are too expensive to make money as it is, and forcing these plants to reprocess would drive even the plants now in operation out of business.
Nuclear is not financially sustainable when you factor in waste disposal and storage or waste reprocessing.
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act!" -- George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)