Yeah, that's true enough... But you will get all the tree huggers complaining either way.... Build a wind farm, they complain about it blighting the landscape... You would find that most treehuggers don't.
Ethanol would be good for Europe too I think Europe will move to electrical cars. (trains are allready electric - diesels can't go very fast) Windmills and solarcells are being put up by the thousands over here.
As for insurance, how many accidents have there been in the western world that resulted in a payout from this insurance? and what will happen when a serious nuclear meltdown occurs? who will pay for the damages and lives lost? I can bet it won't be the companies (see: chernobyl), but the government. Note : a serious meltdown WILL occur, cuts will always be made by managements, and NOTHING has ever been build that is 100% safe, 99,999% is NOT 100%.
Solar/Wind are subsidized more than nuclear you are DEAD WRONG. look up who Insures nuclear power plants. look up the research costs, look up who pays for the instances who check the plants... THAT is all also part of subsidy.
All fine, but if you look at the actual cost of those too-complicated-to-be-ever-economical-systems, i have to wonder if they ever get marketed... it will just be cheaper to go the wind/solar/electrolysis way, and certainly if they stop subsidizing nuclear so much.
The more you cut taxes, the more the government will collapse. In the real world however... taxes gets cut for the rich, and the poor pay for the infrastructure, education, military,...
When I put the Geiger counter near a coconut, which accumulates radioactive material from the soil, it went berserk. How did You defend yourself from that coconut?
it will take quite a while for a spread-out set of solar cells to all become darkened the same could be said of wind of course. Even better : if you spread out your windmills across europe, energy production would be practically constant-> if the whole of europe(or the whole of the US) would be wind-free, that would be because : the sun would have stopped heating the earth AND the earth would have stopped rotating. (because wind is a side effect of the sun shining and the earth rotating) wind-free zones are very local.
no, (s)he is right, 0K = -273.15C (altough I think that's still a rounded number) 0K = absolute lowest temperature possible. 0C = freezing temp of water at 1 atmospheric pressure.
I don't give a crap where the article's from I can imagine the financial elite beginning to dream with such statements. the source of an article is SO important!
but wait... if 2 people leave my house at lightspeed in opposite directions, after an hour they will be at 2 lighthours from each other ! so they would have to be already travelling 2 hours after that hour ?
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um... good insulation is 10 times as cheap than wasting energy trying to keep your house cool or warm.
But you will get all the tree huggers complaining either way....
Build a wind farm, they complain about it blighting the landscape... You would find that most treehuggers don't.
I can live with that. My health is more important than a small disturbance in the landscape.
yeah, nuclear power plants and coal power plants are *VERY* beautiful. As are all those highways, and skyscrapers ...
LOL! those are hybrids then ?
I don't know, but the fact is : our electric trains run 160kph(or 360kph for the TGV's), and the diesels run 120kph.
conclusion : land is the limiting factor to wealth.
No, I say we drop _ALL_ subsidies. The problem with that of course, is that you can't get insurance for nuclear power plants.
http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/97/climate/eusub.html
All fine, but if you look at the actual cost of those too-complicated-to-be-ever-economical-systems, i have to wonder if they ever get marketed ... it will just be cheaper to go the wind/solar/electrolysis way, and certainly if they stop subsidizing nuclear so much.
burning up nuclear waste ???? That just spreads the radiation into the air
a type is not a biological term, so (s)he must have meant species.
no, (s)he is right, 0K = -273.15C (altough I think that's still a rounded number)
0K = absolute lowest temperature possible.
0C = freezing temp of water at 1 atmospheric pressure.
but wait ... if 2 people leave my house at lightspeed in opposite directions, after an hour they will be at 2 lighthours from each other ! so they would have to be already travelling 2 hours after that hour ?
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