I you want safe energy generation, nuclear or other, just require
insurance to cover all damage, personal injury and deaths coverage at
the 90th wrongful death settelment level. I do not know all the
things needed to make complex, dangerous processes highly unlikely to
do do damage, however with this kind of insurance requirement I think a
lot of the best experts will be working on extremely safe designs.
Somewhat similar rules might be applied to mining and processing
industries.
Making explicit rules does not control things well. taxes work much
better, If they are not suficintly efecitve they can be adjusted. If
not suffiently global impose them on all imports based on worst poluting
in source country.
Alass, not achievable in the curent culture.
craig
On 1/22/2015 10:09 AM, Bob Stuart wrote:
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 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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