> > David, Is that what we want? More energy? More poison to accumulate, or > eventually to be dumped on the lands of the least powerful? > >
Mark, are raising literally 3 distinct issues. 1. YES, we need more energy. We need a LOT more energy in order to get OFF of fossil fuels, our common goal. George Monbiat, a Green writer in the UK, estimated Britain would need about 50% more energy than generated now to get off of fossil fuels. Additionally there are about 1.5 billion folks with NO electricity available at all, which is a major hindrance to economic development not to mention all sorts of issues with health care, education, etc. You write as if energy is a bad thing, not a good thing. 2. "More poison..."? What poison? If you mean Spent Nuclear Fuel...there isn't that much of it. For the U.S. we have around 70,000 tons of this dense material. *After 70 years of commercial nuclear operations ALL this High Level Waste wouldn't even fill up a COSTCO store.* And, unlike the massive chemical pollution from producing solar panels and wind turbines...we can account for every gram of this material. Secondly, this "waste" is only waste if you waste it. It will become the feed stock for fueling advanced fast reactors as both the Russia, Indians, and Chinese are doing now. Lastly no one "dumps" this material over the land, not when the are in 60 ton stainless steel lined concrete casks. I am very much opposed to places like Yucca Mountain which was designed to permanently bury this very valuable resource. > > You mention countries, but I would add that technology billionaires who > own Amazon and Microsoft are cutting out the public and plan to directly > buy large, long-term leases in Three Mile Island and Susquehanna. > Indeed. A good use, IMO, of stranded/mothballed assets. Perhaps you'd like to see more gas turbines built? The whole energy industry should be nationalized but we can't wait for a workers revolution to get this accomplished. We need to unleash the worlds greatest source of low carbon energy now, that can replace every MW of coal and gas generation on a 1 to 1 basis. David > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35155): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35155 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111104123/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
