This must be a troll from under the Nuclear bridge. I live near the
first Uranium mines, which are still leaking and producing mutants.
By the time they, and all the other hazards have been cleaned up,
there is likely to be no net gain at all. The potential of nuclear
is tiny without re-processing, which has never worked. It is dwarfed
not only by wind, but by hydrothermal vents, the smallest of which
puts out the power of several big nukes. The only thing nukes are
good for is producing bomb material and corruption in politics. Just
try to get one insured if you don't believe me.
Bob Stuart
On 22-Jan-15, at 8:49 AM, Kermit Schlansker wrote:
Ideas on Sustainability
We have no right to dismiss Global Warming. The
consequences are so dire that if the probability of warming
occurring were only .1% we still would have to act. Furthermore the
question really is whether we have to conserve or not. As the years
go by we will run out of many resources including fossil fuels and
it is imperative that we conserve them. Still another reason is
that by reducing consumption we can reduce the basic cost of living
and that will be essential at a time where poverty is everywhere.
It is imperative that we build more nuclear plants
because that is the only source of energy large enough to save us
from total despair. Solar, biomass and wind can never produce
enough to satisfy our needs. However energy sources are only
competitive in terms of priority and price. We need all of them.
Some of them are much easier to finance than nuclear and we must
proceed on all fronts. We must develop all types of energy
conservation and alternate energy production in order to keep the
cost and number of nuclear plants down to a manageable level.
Geometry is the best tool for conserving energy.
Cities must be designed a square mile at a time. That square mile
should be packed with apartment houses, factories, multi-purpose
buildings, a department store, and anything else that is needed for
every day life. Towns should be so designed that “walking to work
will save the earth” The construction of single family houses
should be stopped. The first step is to stop subsidizing them in
any way. Apartments will save large amounts of heating energy and
the compactness they can create will greatly reduce transportation
energy. City and county governments must assist in the formation of
car pools. Apartments are the only way of saving energy that costs
nothing because we need a place to live anyhow.
Energy saving devices such as cogeneration,
comanufacturing, combustion driven heat pumps, and solar mirrors
for both power generation and heating must be developed. Biomass
gasifying and biodigestion must be experimented with. Large amounts
of biomass including fruit trees must be planted. Cities must plant
parks and streets with edible plants. It is essential that sewage
be biodigested along with other biomass and used to make
fertilizer, fuel gas, and clean water The digestion residues can
initially be used for fertilizing energy crops in order to avoid
pollution problems
There should be large farms with apartment houses on them
rather than single family houses that destroy both cropland and
wilderness. Experimental farming should develop both energy and
food crops. Farm apartment buildings are ideal places to experiment
with heating, cooling, small windmills, and solar energy.
It is imperative that city, State, and county
governments get involved in initiating large energy projects such
as an energy farm or experimental low heat apartments. A universal
factory would also be a good project. In order to do this they
should work together to start and finance such projects. It is as
essential to make it easier for ordinary citizens to form
cooperatives and small corporations that would do energy or food
projects. There should be a roster in city hall of people that wish
to buy stock and help to form such projects.
Kermit Schlansker PE [email protected]
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