Russell wrote:
*For all the arguments pro and con nuclear fission, including animpassioned speech by a 16 year old last night to a UN Youth Voicecompetition, what never seems to be discussed is the elephant in theroom of how much uranium resources we have. IIUC, if all fossil fuelpower plants were replaced by conventional fission reactors, we'd burnthrough our uranium supplies in about 50 years flat. So fissionreactors do not solve the problem. Of course there is fast breedertechnology, but everbody is so shit scared about all the plutonium thatwould then appear on the market, making it incredibly easy for roguestates to construct nuclear weapons, that I don't see that happeningany time soon either.* Cheers I keep 'preaching' the benefits of applying geothermic heat *AND *F U S I O N nukes (both to be finalized by R&D). To whine about the inadequacies of the 'available (or not so available?) others is not helping. Hydro is shaky by climat warming, Wind may be as well, solar panels would cover most of the planet, so why not concentrate on what is feasible? I have in mind (and published on the internet several times) a better geotherm than implemented in NZ lately. If we (humans) survive we will need much much more energy than today's staple. John M On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au>wrote: > 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 hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
