Remember that Germany had significant safety issues with the ICE, especially the wheels which caused the Eschede crash and need ongoing special TLC like X-raying.
I just checked that site and you were right. No news there, just pages and pages on how reactors work. Wonders of technology. True, when they work and don't burn or explode.
1. The cost of coal liquification is several times the cost of pumping oil from the ground. 2. Worldwide and US peak coal in terms of mass is expected in 20-30 years. 3. US peak coal in terms of total energy (BTU) was more than a decade ago. 4. And that doesn't even begin to address the questions of EROEI and CO2 emissions.
Solar+wind+NG with a decent grid can replace base loads. It's being done in Europe. "they are not risk free" and "We need to build modern nuclear plants"? How does that compute? Would you rather have the higher risk of a nuke plant?
"Visible impact on the environment"? You sound like part of the NIMBY crowd. If you'd rather inhale the exhaust from fossil fuel plants or wait for the neighborhood nuke to melt down, that's fine with me. I'd rather have a massive array of wind turbines on the hills in the neighborhood and large solar arrays in the backcountry.
Nuclear is getting more expensive while wind and solar costs keep dropping. You have something backwards. Oh and peak uranium is around the corner too - expected around 2030.
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Rail in a free society will be more expensive than planes for a simple reason. Airplanes fly in the air.
That is under the assumption of dirt cheap fuel which is less and less the case.
Remember that Germany had significant safety issues with the ICE, especially the wheels which caused the Eschede crash and need ongoing special TLC like X-raying.
Obvious question: What about the political leanings and socio-economic end educational status of Linux users?
It was spreading so fast, it's just relativistic mass.
You are a couple orders of magnitude off. 5Sv is probably lethal and you'd get that in 3 minutes at 100Sv/h.
From http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2011/04/april-20-2011-fukushima-review-of-ines.html:
On April 17th the same site had the following radiation levels recorded for units 1-3:
Reactor 1
Dry Well: 121.4 Sv/hr
Suppression chamber: 97.5 Sv/hr
Reactor 2
Dry Well: N/A
Suppression Chamber: 131 Sv/hr
Reactor 3
Dry Well: 253.2 Sv/hr
Suppression Chamber: 103.9 Sv/hr
So that's going to take a while to cool off.
I just checked that site and you were right. No news there, just pages and pages on how reactors work. Wonders of technology. True, when they work and don't burn or explode.
Way more than a netbook? Ridiculous.
"Rugged individualism"=="proud to be dumb".
1. The cost of coal liquification is several times the cost of pumping oil from the ground.
2. Worldwide and US peak coal in terms of mass is expected in 20-30 years.
3. US peak coal in terms of total energy (BTU) was more than a decade ago.
4. And that doesn't even begin to address the questions of EROEI and CO2 emissions.
That is wishful thinking.
At what cost?
Once the oil price tends towards infinity there won't be anything left but green farming.
Just have a look at http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7767.
Should only be a matter of sending the right User-Agent.
OMG! There is sex after marriage?
If you want something stable, use Debian. Yes it looks old fashioned compared to Ubuntu. But it works.
Brand name? "OpenOffice, the thing that was tainted by Oracle."
OpenOffice is that things that's tainted by Oracle.
Is there anybody not switching to LibreOffice?
Quick, get the hammer and the stake!
Thank you! :)
Thorium has been in the research stage for decades. Yes I know the reasons. But it is not ready for production without some significant R&D work.
Solar+wind+NG with a decent grid can replace base loads. It's being done in Europe.
"they are not risk free" and "We need to build modern nuclear plants"? How does that compute? Would you rather have the higher risk of a nuke plant?
"Visible impact on the environment"? You sound like part of the NIMBY crowd.
If you'd rather inhale the exhaust from fossil fuel plants or wait for the neighborhood nuke to melt down, that's fine with me.
I'd rather have a massive array of wind turbines on the hills in the neighborhood and large solar arrays in the backcountry.
So how much is that in acre-feet?
Or footballfield-inches?
Nuclear is getting more expensive while wind and solar costs keep dropping. You have something backwards.
Oh and peak uranium is around the corner too - expected around 2030.