Wind Energy

[jeezeweeze]

Originally Posted by Army_of_One

I agree...people just worry about something like Chernobyl happening..lol

If they run those with employees like we have in Washington...We probably should be worried.....lol

I am more worried about the waste problem... I need to check breeder reactors.

[jeezeweeze]

Fast Breeder Reactors

France is ahead of us ....and we been dissin'um .. LOL

[aft_lizard01]

Originally Posted by jeezeweeze

If they run those with employees like we have in Washington...We probably should be worried.....lol

I am more worried about the waste problem... I need to check breeder reactors.

The waste issue is easy IMO, just NIMBY's dont want to deal with it. Now instead of waste concentrated in one spot we have reactor waste sitting on tarmacs outside of dozens of locations. They are encased in a special concrete and metal container though, but I would rather them be buried 3 thousand feet down in the middle of the desert where there isnta water table to speak of then sitting around in mulptiple places.

Now the other thing is that when you stop to think of the amounts of deaths attributed with coal mining and oil, not to mention secondary deaths by particulates and Co2, sulfides etc and way them against the only deadly nuclear accident at Chernobyl, the human cost is clear. Nuclear is the only safe way to go for mass energy creation.

[Gypsy]

Having lived in SW KS all but three years of my life...WHEN is wind inSW KS not reliable??

[Bubba]

Originally Posted by Gypsy

Having lived in SW KS all but three years of my life...WHEN is wind inSW KS not reliable??

Today!! The wind was blowing hard enough that the wind turbines shut down this afternoon and a local fossil fuel power plant had to crank up to almost MAXIMUM output to meet the demand.

[Flying Dutchman]

Speaking of Chernobyl.....

Saw a special the other day on Discovery or National Geo about Chernobyl now that it is 20+ years. They still will not allow any humans to live there, but it appears the scientists were wrong about it becoming a wasteland. The animal life has exploded, and none of it mutated like they thought. Both plants and local animals have made a major population change. The best guess was that animals have a short life span compared to humans. As such they do not mutate or get the cancers associated with radiation because their bodies grow to fast and the cancer cells do not have time to materialize. Nature finds a way.


Hmmmmmm.......if they were so wrong about something like nuclear radiation, wonder how they could be so right about global warming.

[Army_of_One]

Originally Posted by Flying Dutchman

Speaking of Chernobyl.....

Yeah...speaking of Chernobyl...he he he...




Miss Chernobyl 2007