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The World's First Osmotic Power Plant
ElectricSteve writes "Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway officially opened the world's first osmotic power plant prototype on November 24. The prototype has a limited production capacity and will be used primarily for testing and data validation, leading to the construction of a commercial power plant in a few years time. Statkraft claims that the technology has the global potential to generate clean, renewable energy equivalent to China's total electricity consumption in 2002 or half of the EU's total power production" What's osmotic power? Wikipedia to the rescue!
Last time I looked France even had a 40+ year old tidal hydro power station near Le Havre as well as a wide variety of other power plants. Try harder. It's especially funny that on the next line you accused me of spreading bullshit. Why is it that such a mild statement that is difficult to dismiss due to the wild claims of the old guard nuclear lobby invokes such venom? Since you are the one suggesting that the wild claims are true I suggest you come up with something to suprise me and prove your point.
I suggest you try reading more widely about plant life, paticularly about nuclear plants.
It really annoys me that a mild remark correcting an error by a nuclear power advocate raises such a response from people that really have little idea of what it is. Hit the net and dispel the stupid preconception in your heads that a Westinghouse dinosaur plant painted green is perfect and learn that people have actually been working on the problems associated with nuclear power and making it a more viable alternative. If you live in the past spouting a 1950s vision of a future that never happened you will just get laughed at.
A single real example disproves an ignorant blanket statement and you are reading far too much emotional baggage from elsewhere into a simple statement.
I suggest you reread my initial statement above before labelling me a troll - it is one mild sentence which gets my entire point across.
If you want more information please google for the German Government-commissioned World Nuclear Industry Status Report from August this year, anything I state in my own words here will be called a lie by those that have been tricked by those that wish to see a lot of antiquated plants built at taxpayers expense. Nuclear advocates should find out for themselves that power plants were not perfect 40 years ago and that the assumption that it was has held the industry back more than anything else.
And yes, since you brought up per capita, you are talking rates per some arbitrary measure, and rarely can someone not pick some other arbitrary measure that shows the exact opposite.
I would conversely argue that per capita is the only reasonable measurement when you're trying to make a statement about a group of people. It's what per capita means, per head. If you want to make generalities about the average american, first you have to define it.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"