All investors in nuclear energy, plus the politicians who support it, should be required to keep the nuclear waste in their basements, handed down in perpetuity to their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchi ldren.
One of the founders of Greenpeace spent 30 years preaching the same ignorance you just did.
Everyone knows he sold out for the big nuclear bucks.
Try dealing with reality. I did a TV show on energy in British Columbia in the 1970s, and it accurately covered the pros and cons of all forms of energy, including transmission impacts.
The problem with people pushing any specific energy source is that they all pretend their energy source is perfect and all the other ones are bad.
Try telling that to Iran. Or many other countries. Just ask North Korea if they agree with your US-centric viewpoint, ignoring the military reactors we use in certain facilities.
Until you solve groundwater pollution (Hanford), plutonium release during weapons storage lifetime, spent radioactive shell pollution, depleted uranium dust (a major health risk in the Middle East), and potential pollution over the many many thousands of years of lifespan of the nuclear waste, than you can't say they don't have pollution.
I didn't say they were less polluting, I said they were not non-polluting, and that any arguments being made for low pollution are based on current year pollution estimates at best and do not include future pollution effects from what we've already mined, processed, used, and (supposedly permanently, but not so unless buried in the earth's mantle or flown into the sun) disposed of.
Let's get real. Stop trying to make best case scenarios when such don't actually exist in the real world. Even fusion reactors have radioactive waste byproducts from the processing, shielding, and other such components (admittedly incredibly little).
Just in case you think I'm nuts, I've owned and do own shares in utilities and companies involved in coal, oil, nuclear, wind, and other energy source production and distribution. I even WORKED in mining.
Nuclear is currently the "greenest" electricity production option for a large scale output whereas coal releases heaps of nasty stuff in the air, specially as electric co. are slow to use filters to clean the exhaust of their coal burning plants.
I think the people of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island might disagree with you, as well as all the people suffering from Depleted Uranium and Plutonium poisonings.
False data leads to bad planning and bad economic decisions.
This, above all, is one reason that systems like Red Communism in place in Russia, China, and the White House in DC create slower growing economies, as they are not just inefficient, but usually run by incompetents promoted beyond their abilities.
I think they forgot that (as the article states) "concentrating solar energy on a smaller area" does not increase the efficiency - it merely concentrates a wider area of sunlight into a smaller area.
Say you have a 100 foot tall 20 foot wide black-coated solar water heater tower. It cranks out a certain amount of BTU, like 5x.
Now take an area of 60000 square feet of reflective panels - and focus them so the sunlight reflects onto the same 100 foot tall 20 foot wide black-coated solar water heater tower. The amount of BTU increases, to something like 300x (60 times the original).
The efficiency is still the same.
In the real world, of course, reflection not only costs money (the reflective panels, tracking the sun), it decreases efficiency (reflectors are never 100 percent efficient).
What has captured the market is the projected constant increased cost of other traditional energy sources, such as barrels of oil, which used to go for $20 a barrel at peak to now $70 a barrel at peak with a floor around $40 a barrel. So the cost-effectiveness of traditional - or improved - solar generation methods is higher, even though they are not substantially more efficient, as you can get more energy from solar for the same amount of money spent on oil than you could just a few years ago (due to the increase in price and demand for energy).
or, it might be regionally coded, and show different things to different people, from a.apx file - hmmm, maybe in the South it says "Newfangled Stuff and Things Your Ma Won't Like" or something like that...
In fact, availability might be impacted by other factors.
No, you can buy the full Costco bundle - I think it's the Wii system, two controllers (both Wii-mote and nunchuk), Zelda: TP, Excite Truck, and I think another cool game.
I hate to break it to you but you also can't force staff members to turn over their home answering machines either.
We are not talking about home recordings of voice mail.
We are talking about literal emails - which legally are correspondence - and are subject to the law.
You know, the law. Something that every patriot defends - Truth, Justice, and the American Middle Class Way of Life - something that seems to be attacked every day by the Red House and the Red Bushies.
According to the Washington Post and other news sources, you find that these emails were intentionally deleted by specific individuals, chief amongst these criminals being Karl Rove.
Now, I delete emails every day, but I don't do so knowing it's an intentional act to cover my tracks, and my email server probably makes tons of archival copies, for all I know.
However, you can reconstruct these emails by subpoena action for all the individuals that the felon Rove sent and received said emails from.
And you can grab the server logs at all the waypoints - you would be surprised what you can find.
Well, I have it on CD-ROM, and even ran it on WinXP on my laptop, but I keep hoping someone will make it a web-enabled game where each time you get a row of decomposed bodies, a donation of $1 goes to Darfur.
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no, just think of a charter cargo plane.
I used to be in the Army.
The problem with 9/11 wasn't that they tried it, it was that they did what trained professionals would have done to achieve the military objective.
Never assume they aren't well trained.
spend 100 billion dollars to store it for a while
i ldren.
Good point.
All investors in nuclear energy, plus the politicians who support it, should be required to keep the nuclear waste in their basements, handed down in perpetuity to their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandch
That will make it obvious what the cost is.
One of the founders of Greenpeace spent 30 years preaching the same ignorance you just did.
Everyone knows he sold out for the big nuclear bucks.
Try dealing with reality. I did a TV show on energy in British Columbia in the 1970s, and it accurately covered the pros and cons of all forms of energy, including transmission impacts.
The problem with people pushing any specific energy source is that they all pretend their energy source is perfect and all the other ones are bad.
Same then.
Same now.
On the other hand, planned economies have a rather bad track record.
Exactly, this is why Cheney's planned economy for Iraq was such a disasterous Red Bushie failure.
Capitalism cares nothing about your politics or what you say - it is what you DO.
I believe you failed to watch the movie about the only downed plane on 9/11.
Try telling that to Iran. Or many other countries. Just ask North Korea if they agree with your US-centric viewpoint, ignoring the military reactors we use in certain facilities.
I'm sure the pilots of Flight 94 thought so too. Know how close that was?
... (elevator music) ...
... ... (elevator music) ...
... ... (elevator music) ...
Waiting while you get out maps.
Now, how fast does a plane like that fly
Now, what happens when it crashes directly into the plant aimed precisely for where it needs to go
See?
(chuckling on my end)
Until you solve groundwater pollution (Hanford), plutonium release during weapons storage lifetime, spent radioactive shell pollution, depleted uranium dust (a major health risk in the Middle East), and potential pollution over the many many thousands of years of lifespan of the nuclear waste, than you can't say they don't have pollution.
I didn't say they were less polluting, I said they were not non-polluting, and that any arguments being made for low pollution are based on current year pollution estimates at best and do not include future pollution effects from what we've already mined, processed, used, and (supposedly permanently, but not so unless buried in the earth's mantle or flown into the sun) disposed of.
Let's get real. Stop trying to make best case scenarios when such don't actually exist in the real world. Even fusion reactors have radioactive waste byproducts from the processing, shielding, and other such components (admittedly incredibly little).
Just in case you think I'm nuts, I've owned and do own shares in utilities and companies involved in coal, oil, nuclear, wind, and other energy source production and distribution. I even WORKED in mining.
Just be honest.
Nuclear is currently the "greenest" electricity production option for a large scale output whereas coal releases heaps of nasty stuff in the air, specially as electric co. are slow to use filters to clean the exhaust of their coal burning plants.
I think the people of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island might disagree with you, as well as all the people suffering from Depleted Uranium and Plutonium poisonings.
False data leads to bad planning and bad economic decisions.
This, above all, is one reason that systems like Red Communism in place in Russia, China, and the White House in DC create slower growing economies, as they are not just inefficient, but usually run by incompetents promoted beyond their abilities.
I think they forgot that (as the article states) "concentrating solar energy on a smaller area" does not increase the efficiency - it merely concentrates a wider area of sunlight into a smaller area.
Say you have a 100 foot tall 20 foot wide black-coated solar water heater tower. It cranks out a certain amount of BTU, like 5x.
Now take an area of 60000 square feet of reflective panels - and focus them so the sunlight reflects onto the same 100 foot tall 20 foot wide black-coated solar water heater tower. The amount of BTU increases, to something like 300x (60 times the original).
The efficiency is still the same.
In the real world, of course, reflection not only costs money (the reflective panels, tracking the sun), it decreases efficiency (reflectors are never 100 percent efficient).
What has captured the market is the projected constant increased cost of other traditional energy sources, such as barrels of oil, which used to go for $20 a barrel at peak to now $70 a barrel at peak with a floor around $40 a barrel. So the cost-effectiveness of traditional - or improved - solar generation methods is higher, even though they are not substantially more efficient, as you can get more energy from solar for the same amount of money spent on oil than you could just a few years ago (due to the increase in price and demand for energy).
You and me both, I'd love to buy Diablo 3 for the Wii, or at least for the Mac or Linux/BSD.
How would I see my troll's bloodshot eyes sparkle as he squeezes the puss from his face?
They laugh at such restrictions.
Anime tentacle snake monsters unite!
or, it might be regionally coded, and show different things to different people, from a .apx file - hmmm, maybe in the South it says "Newfangled Stuff and Things Your Ma Won't Like" or something like that ...
In fact, availability might be impacted by other factors.
Why, are they as good as the ones at Norwescon?
Found it at Costco
... what? sorry, I was asleep.
Is it This?
Just keep checking Toys and Games - Special Deals and One-time Offers. It was online for at least 90 days.
You snooze. You
No, you can buy the full Costco bundle - I think it's the Wii system, two controllers (both Wii-mote and nunchuk), Zelda: TP, Excite Truck, and I think another cool game.
Online.
At least you can in Seattle.
It was destroyed, therefore it was not required to be preserved?
...
Let me guess, the Red poster thinks we need to burn the village to save it, right?
Hmmm, no wonder the Bush twins and the Cheney daughters are conspicuously absent from serving in Iraq in the military
I hate to break it to you but you also can't force staff members to turn over their home answering machines either.
We are not talking about home recordings of voice mail.
We are talking about literal emails - which legally are correspondence - and are subject to the law.
You know, the law. Something that every patriot defends - Truth, Justice, and the American Middle Class Way of Life - something that seems to be attacked every day by the Red House and the Red Bushies.
So when we talk about loosing White House's emails.... which email address we are talking about exactly?
kr@gwbush.org
Aka Karl Rove.
According to the Washington Post and other news sources, you find that these emails were intentionally deleted by specific individuals, chief amongst these criminals being Karl Rove.
Now, I delete emails every day, but I don't do so knowing it's an intentional act to cover my tracks, and my email server probably makes tons of archival copies, for all I know.
However, you can reconstruct these emails by subpoena action for all the individuals that the felon Rove sent and received said emails from.
And you can grab the server logs at all the waypoints - you would be surprised what you can find.
Just go online to Costco or WalMart or Target or where ever and buy it online.
It will ship within days.
Problem solved.
Seriously, I hope it's not just an excuse for cosplay.
But if they brought back Diablo for the Wii, they would easily tap into that market!
Well, I have it on CD-ROM, and even ran it on WinXP on my laptop, but I keep hoping someone will make it a web-enabled game where each time you get a row of decomposed bodies, a donation of $1 goes to Darfur.
One can dream. In fact, I have a song about that!