On Dec 6, 2007 7:42 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You have to ask yourself, what would you rather have: a coal fired > >generator spewing out smoke, a nuclear reactor pumping out > >contaminated water or a bunch of wind turbines? > > Actually there is no contaminated water coming from nuclear plants. The > fuss is that the plants take in cold water and discharge warmer water into > the river, or whatever water body. A nuclear plant is just a giant tea pot > that heats water to steam to drive turbines. The environmental whackos that > hate them fuss about the hundred or so feet from the discharge pipe where > the water is somewhat warmer that the general river temperature. This > allows the growth of some algae. Nothing that cannot be controlled, but > enough that they want to deprive us of the benefits of this clean power > source. >
As a whacko I see the water warming being a small step backwards in the global warming issue. Unfortunately that is not my beef with nukes. It is the pileup of waste that is unrecoverable, and the geologic time frame that we have to deal with it after we produce it. We think that it is so great to not use "oil" and that whole combustion process. Sorry but creating thousands of toxic waste dumps is just stupid. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
