Its all driven by cash as we all agree. The competition between the oil and nat gas producers has driven prices way down. I am guessing this is a temporary thing. Perhaps if the Gulf of Hormuz closes, prices will climb horribly, (for us). Uranium fission, unless there is a technical advance in safety, operation, disposal, barring what China or South Korea does, will never make a comeback. The reason will be because of cost. Nat Gas plants can go up in 36 months, and jet turbines even quicker (small scale gas turbines). Solar and wind could remediate energy use problems as well as security, even, if we plan for it, for transportation. The grande flaw is that solar and wind 'storage' is missing, and so is power by wire (transporting electricity). As I stated earlier. most people are powerless to influence events, so we've no choice in the matter. He who has tons of cash has tons of clout.
-----Original Message----- From: 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Mar 21, 2015 2:01 pm Subject: RE: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 9:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down We can yap about technology but it's all out of our hands. Nuclear fission has taken permanent hit because of its cost$. It's not safety that halted uranium, but money. In a darwinian fashion, natural gas has superseded uranium, from a cost-price ratio. Could fission or solar re-take the hill top any time soon? Will fusion ever be there? Don't know, and since I have no power to influence, don't care. Mitch, in case you didn’t notice the US tight oil and gas sector is in a tail spin, reeling from the current wild price swing for oil & gas. This will swing the other way eventually and oil will rise above $100/barrel, but for now it is wreaking havoc on upstream projects. In the oil and gas sector there are very long upstream time lines and large capital outlays that depend on future prices being predictably above some predicted floor. Capital is fleeing this sector right now; as are the jobs. It will be interesting to see how it plays out over the next few years. -----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Mar 21, 2015 11:22 am Subject: Re: TEPCO admits Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 core completely melted down On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:55 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > Reactors are either water cooled or air cooled. Graphite is used as a > moderator to slow the neutrons and increase fission I know that. > not as a coolant. Slowing the neutrons is also called cooling them. > Heavy water is used as a combined coolant and moderator in some reactors. And so is Helium and liquid sodium. John K Clark -- 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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout.
