Or even that something is nonexistent. The insane Biden administration insisting that the country "transition" from fossil fuels to some mythical source of electricity that simply does not exist...THAT is true insanity.
Nex-gen nuclear plant construction
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Kyle
Beloved Misanthrope
"Henceforth all Automobiles must run on Unicorn Farts and Fairy Dust."
Wind is a frigging disaster. How much fossil fuel is required to mine the materials used to make one wind turbine...how much to convert those materials to a useful form like steel..how much to assemble and transport the components..how much to assemble the turbine..how much to tear it down again after it is 20 years old...how much to cut up those massive blades and transport them to the massive landfills that required how many large earth moving machines to make and maintain....
Many so-called "alternative energy" sources are complete joke that is nothing but pablum for the uneducated masses of greenies.
Many so-called "alternative energy" sources are complete joke that is nothing but pablum for the uneducated masses of greenies.
Kinnakeet
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Im all for drilling oil & gas do not like the idea of a nuclear melt down near me
LOL. You have a FAR greater chance of being hit by lightning. And how many people were killed or injured in the 3-Mile mishap?
glhs837
Power with Control
Tell me you don't understand the risks without telling me you don't understand the risks.
Kinnakeet
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Im no nuclear engineer but what do they do with the waste
Kinnakeet
Well-Known Member
If something bad(nuclear) should go wrong happens do you want to be near that
Oil and gas are proven why change
I'm a huge oil and gas proponent..but both will eventually be phased out whether we like it or not. Nuke power is stunningly safe...as an engineer and statistician looking at the historical numbers and the current generation designs, I'm not even faintly concerned about the minuscule risks.
Kinnakeet
Well-Known Member
The waste is buried underground and some dumped into the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from what I have read, how can this be ok?
Beats heck out how they dispose of wind turbine blades. ;-) The volume of nuclear waste is tiny by comparison and storage methods well developed. Many (very many) nuclear plants are built, being built, and operated around the globe. The US is one of the few developed nations that let politics and irrational NIMBY and greenie fears get in the way of developing and building new nuke plants.
Kyle
Beloved Misanthrope
If they drop it in the Marianas Trench it'll eventually be subducted into the mantle and help keep the magnetic field going.
Win-Win.
Kinnakeet
Well-Known Member
Wind turbines another waste of money IMO I read that some wind turbines have killed a bunch of Eagles and the companies are being sued for 8 million or more
Kinnakeet
Well-Known Member
I dont think its dumped there we dont want to piss off the aliens that live there
glhs837
Power with Control
What Gil said. Burning stuff to make power needs to stop eventually. Nuke is the way. Far less people dying due to that than any other means of generation.
Risk is a thing you mitigate and accept. And not blindly based on fears from another generation.
Kinnakeet
Well-Known Member
Burning stuff keeps people in jobs
Sure. But reality bites.
Offshore wind industry provides more business for my company than any other source these days. So we're ho's...know how deficient the technology is and happy to take their money at the same time. ;-p And yep...wind turbines kill lots of birds, including protected species.
glhs837
Power with Control
And if we handle this transition properly, which means letting market forces dictate it, they will have time to adjust.
Tech
Well-Known Member
That's how you get Godzillas.