Cost-ways, I can see this.
-----Original Message----- From: meekerdb <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Nov 15, 2013 7:37 pm Subject: Re: Nuclear power On 11/15/2013 4:11 PM, [email protected] wrote: What about thorium schemes Dr. Standish? Also, are things such as hydroelectric reservoirs built on the ocean, and lifting sea water as pumped storage workable, or is it an energy sink, where we expend more energy then we produce to accomplish this? My scheme would be to use Canadian Slowpoke reactive reactors, to lift ocean water, on to use billions of litres to drive turbines,as needed. Unworkable, or plausible? Well that reactor still depends on uranium from fuel and I don't think it's a breeder reactor. Also it's not clear whether they can be scaled up to city-power size. Using pumped water storage has worked well some places where there was a large elevated reservoir available. I don't think it's practical if you have build elevated tankage. Brent -----Original Message----- From: Russell Standish <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: 15-Nov-2013 16:11:29 +0000 Subject: Nuclear power On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 01:01:44PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: > On 11/15/2013 11:06 AM, John Clark wrote: > > > >Lets look at the disasters associated with various energy producing projects: > > > >In 1975 the Shimantan/Banqiao hydroelectric Dam in China failed and killed 171,000 people. > > > >In 1979 the Three Mile Island reactor melted down and killed nobody. > > > >In 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear plant melted down and killed 31 > >immediately and 4000 many decades later. > > > >In 1979 the Morvi hydroelectric Dam in India failed and killed 1500 people, > > > >In 1998 a oil pipeline in Nigeria exploded and killed 1078 people. > > > >In 1907 the Monongah Coal Mine in West Virginia exploded and killed well > >over 500 people. > > > >In 1944 a liquified natural gas factory exploded in Cleveland Ohio and > >killed 130 people. > > > >In 2011 the Fukushima nuclear power plant melted down and killed nobody. > > Not only that, coal mining releases a lot more radioctivity into the > atmosphere than nuclear plants ever have. > > Brent > For all the arguments pro and con nuclear fission, including an impassioned speech by a 16 year old last night to a UN Youth Voice competition, what never seems to be discussed is the elephant in the room of how much uranium resources we have. IIUC, if all fossil fuel power plants were replaced by conventional fission reactors, we'd burn through our uranium supplies in about 50 years flat. So fission reactors do not solve the problem. Of course there is fast breeder technology, but everbody is so shit scared about all the plutonium that would then appear on the market, making it incredibly easy for rogue states to construct nuclear weapons, that I don't see that happening any time soon either. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4158 / Virus Database: 3629/6836 - Release Date: 11/14/13 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
