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| Electro Detective:
--- Quote from: Berni on May 12, 2020, 11:21:06 am --- ...If we are trying to be nice to the environment then id say just build more nuclear plants. --- End quote --- :-+ that's a top option but unfortunately there will always be an unforeseen convenient 'accident' to shut them down 'somehow' with an awesome news media carnival to go with it, to ensure it's a long time between builds or rebuilds (not), and let's not forget how many -thousands of centuries- it takes for the nuke fallout to go away, according to their 'experts', that somehow fails to convince plant life and animals to stay away from ground zero ??? :-// yeah, the fossil fuel crew are good like that >:D lots of smoke, fireworks, a good side show for the viewers :popcorn: tons of their paid good troll/bad troll teams on the internet via social media, forums, Youtube etc to beat down on anyone questioning their racket, aka conspiracy theory nuts and of course during any crisis like that, fuel prices get nudged up a bit to cover their expenses = win win :D shhh.. :scared: ;D |
| IDEngineer:
--- Quote from: Electro Detective on May 12, 2020, 10:29:32 pm ---but unfortunately there will always be an unforeseen convenient 'accident' to shut them down 'somehow' with an awesome news media carnival to go with it, to ensure it's a long time between builds or rebuilds (not), and let's not forget how many -thousands of centuries- it takes for the nuke fallout to go away, according to their 'experts', --- End quote --- The solution to nuclear energy is thorium. It's not perfect, but it's decidedly better than uranium-based nuclear. Thorium is quite abundant and broadly distributed on the planet (three times as plentiful as tin!), and when used for fission generates much smaller amounts of much lower radiation byproducts - many of which can be recycled for more fuel, and virtually none of which can be used in weapons. It's this last detail that killed thorium power early on. Governments wanted the uranium and plutonium byproducts for weapons, so they shut down research into thorium power in favor of uranium based fission which gave them the byproducts they wanted. But the physics hasn't changed, and thorium would be an excellent part of an overall environment friendly energy package. Guess who is leading in thorium R&D right now? China and India. The west needs a Manhattan Project for thorium power. Most of the basic questions were answered decades ago, we just need to commercialize it. Or we can just ignore thorium and continue down our primrose path.... |
| Red Squirrel:
Assuming I'm wrong about the government eventually taxing it (I hope I am) then you definitely can save with solar but you need the land for it. Rooftop is too much of a pain to maintain, ground mount is best. If they are vertical facing east, south and west (could make a C then have the battery building in it too) then snow should not be as much of an issue so they will be low maintenance. Pay a lot now to save forever. Hydro rates only keep going up year after year. Wish I had more land as I would definitely work towards going off grid. Easier to do in a country setting though, where you don't need permits to build anything, and can have a wood stove for heat etc and have more land to play on. It's my dream to buy such land eventually. Just waiting for the right parcel to come up, I'm hoping to find something water front with road access. |
| Berni:
There was some talk about adding another reactor to the single nuclear plant we have here. But yeah it will never happen. There would likely be protests to begin with and if it does end up going trough then such a large project would inevitably end up going massively overdue and overbudget because the funding would disappear to corrupt middlemen on it (This is what happened on the extra block of a coal plant that was being built). Don't think we can do much about the radioactive boogieman, especially in these times when flat earthers, 5G fools, antivaxers..etc are at a all time high. One would think giving everyone access to information on the internet would make them smarter and more informed... pretty much opposite is the case it seams. It just makes it easier for people to group together and form "stupidity cults" that spread there own misinformation. |
| Red Squirrel:
Nuclear definitely seems to be the best balance of environment and power output. Main issue with solar/wind is storage. I think more effort needs to go towards that, but for the time being nuclear is best bet. Too bad people are so scared of it. Funny thing is there have been way more oil disasters than nuclear disasters. Just look at the BP oil spill in the ocean, the effects of that will be seen for centuries if longer. |
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