[quote]Headhunter wrote:
If fusion power ever becomes a reality, energy is going to get very cheap, very fast. This will allow the rest of the world to develop (and compete) with the developed world. Watch the Lefties, who are really puppets of the power-elite, come out strongly against this.
It’s just like using biotech to increase crop yields. Heaven forbid if the 3rd world is not hungry – they might start competing with us instead of eating the bark off of trees.[/quote]
I was wondering why only one of the Three Stooges (jeffy) have responded and I just realized that you spelled nuclear wrong. Rainman and zebbie don’t even know what you are talking about. Start a new topic titled “nucular power” and they’ll be all over it.
I don’t think we have much if any choice at this point, we have to go forward with nuclear power. Waste disposal and plant safety are the two biggest issues, and neither is insurmountable.
[quote]mark57 wrote:
I was wondering why only one of the Three Stoges (jeffy) have responded and I just realized that you spelled nuclear wrong. Rainman and zebbie don’t even know what you are talking about. Start a new topic titled “nucular power” and they’ll be all over it.
I don’t think we have much if any choice at this point, we have to go forward with nuclear power. Waste disposal and plant safety are the two biggest issues, and neither is insurmountable.
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If you could correspond with more maturity you might have others more interested in what you are stating. Name calling is usually not even tolerated when little children do it.
[quote]mark57 wrote:
I was wondering why only one of the Three Stoges (jeffy) have responded and I just realized that you spelled nuclear wrong. Rainman and zebbie don’t even know what you are talking about. Start a new topic titled “nucular power” and they’ll be all over it.
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Good stuff. It kills me the way Bush pronounces it.
Carter does the same thing and he allegedly studied to be a “nucular” engineer.
They don’t make weapons out of uranium any longer. The government can’t benefit from anything like selling fuel because it’s not a company and it sure doesn’t benefit other than from taxes on the power sold from the plants. There is no law keeping nuke plants running. In short most of your allegations just don’t make one bit of sense.[/quote]
Exaclty.Now you have part of it figured out. Department of Energy sells the no longer needed weapons grade uranium to a private company for $130 million. That price is dirt cheap. The uranium is really dirty, nasty stuff. Then the company MAKES fuel from it and sells it to a utility (power plant) and makes a killing. The Government looks like angels because they are getting rid of so called weapons grade uranium and making power from it. I will insert the link for you… and when I find it, I will post the law as well. I used to work on this project. I know what I am talking about.
Framatome ANP is a COGEMA and AREVA company for your reference. They are based in Lynchburg, Va. ( Bottom of page)Here is your link
mark57 wrote:
“I was wondering why only one of the Three Stooges (jeffy) have responded and I just realized that you spelled nuclear wrong. Rainman and zebbie don’t even know what you are talking about. Start a new topic titled “nucular power” and they’ll be all over it.”
Since I spelled it correctly (and have much more understanding of the process than you) there are two options: 1. You are an ignoramus who cannot read. 2. You are making some sort of comparison between W. and me.
I tend to agree with the former. If it’s the latter, thanks.
Hey, great!!! (Is three the proper number of exclamations guys? That seems to be the standard with the goose-stepping bush sycophant crowd!!!) Curly, Moe and Larry are all present and accounted for now!!!
Didn’t France get a contract (over Japan) to build the world’s first fusion power plant? I read that somewhere. Sorry to stereotype but the Japanese would be far more efficient at building that plant.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Didn’t France get a contract (over Japan) to build the world’s first fusion power plant? I read that somewhere. Sorry to stereotype but the Japanese would be far more efficient at building that plant.[/quote]
Perhaps, but France can run it fairly cheaply utilizing their endless supply of coffee and cigarettes.
It’s really sad that the technology to develop safe, cheap, and clean nuclear power has been held hostage by the militant anti-nuke crowd.
If you’re not old enough to remember them, consider yourself lucky.
I’ve said this before in another thread, but I think that once you get the plants built, electricity will be the cheapest power source on the planet. You just have to be able to see past the incredible startup costs. The fuel source is endless. We are stupid dolts if we continue to worship at the base of the Arab oil well.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Didn’t France get a contract (over Japan) to build the world’s first fusion power plant? I read that somewhere. Sorry to stereotype but the Japanese would be far more efficient at building that plant.[/quote]
Yup. France it is. And by the looks of it, fusion power is far from a pipe dream. The powerplant in france is as far as I know, an experimental powerplant. With todays technology it will spend equal amount of energy to keep it at 50-100 million degrees Celcius (to make hydrogen fusion), as it will produce. It’s estimated that a new one will be built in 15-20 years, producing surplus energy, and within about 50 years we’ll actually have commercial ones ready. There’s allso atleast 4 other projects with different technology to create fusion which looks promising, including one of cold fusion. Pipe dream? No, but I hope it stays like that untill we’ve sold most of the oil ;).
(1) The amount of nuclear waste from one plant for one year, if they keep refining it until useless, would fill a box about the size of an office desk. It’s when they only use it once that you have any sort of mess (thank you Jimmy Carter). The rest of the world keeps processing until useless.
This is called MOX reactor. The end product is highly enriched weapons grade uranium which Carter was afraid of. It is the best way to go. Gordon Prather is a nuclear physicist and wrote a few articles pertaining this here : http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22898
(2) Coal-burning plants dump about 10,000 trainloads of ‘leftovers’ into our rivers and streams every year.
This is where the MERCURY is coming from that gets into the fish.
(3) You get far more radiation from living in Denver, for example, than you ever would if you lived next door to a nuke plant.
There are lots more reason to KNOW NUKES. Let’s hear more, guys![/quote]
If you want to study up on nuclear power I would suggest reading from this site:
You know what really gets me… There’s like a dozen or so nuclear reactors that are in various stages of completion or need renovation to bring them back up to speed after they were shut down. Now the cost for these bad boys will still be in the billions. But it’s still only 40-70% the cost of building a whole new plant. And many of the units are already at nuclear plants. Why not just upen up units 1, 2 at a plant where you got 3,4 going?