kam wrote: > What all the drilling people forget is that if the US drills and comes up > with several million additional barrels of oil, the price > will remain high because China, India and other emerging economies will > compete for that oil. Besides, the experts say that if you > begin drilling today, you won't have enough oil to matter for 5-7 years > minimum and probably much longer. Drilling probably should > be done because it will take many different things, but it is not the answer > to the problem. > > The only viable long term answer is all electric vehicles, high speed all > electric trains, and other transportation, Electricity is used for alot of things beside transportation, like running machinery in the production of good and services, residential air conditioning, lighting, cooking, heating ,etc. Currently a large percentage of our electricity is being generated from natural gas and coal. Nuclear energy may not be the best solution to our energy needs.
Nuclear energy create electricity form the heat produced in nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. Water is heated into steam. The steam is used to drive turbines that generate electricity. Once a nuclear reaction is started, it is difficult to stop short of consuming all the fuel with the current cycle. The heat from the nuclear reactor must be comstantly controlled. Water is usually used to control the heat. Should anything go wrong with the cooling system, the nuclear reactor with overheat causing a meltdown of materials surrounding the reactor, (eg the temperature will go so high as to vaporize steel and concrete, etc). This meltdown will likely cause the release of nuclear particle into the atmosphere, which are almost impossible to cleanup. http://healthandenergy.com/nuclear_dangers.htm http://www.anotherperspective.org/advoc488.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power Regards, LelandJ > etc and > renewable energy and probably nuclear. Wind, Solar, geothermal, etc will last > a billion years or longer - why not go for it full > speed like the US put a man on the moon. > > We can still use the existing oil for plastic, medications, and all the other > things that need oil. > > What we need is a presidential candidate who will stand up to the Ethanol and > Oil lobbiests. One thing is for sure, with Nancy in > charge, there is not going to be any additional off shore drilling. That girl > is set on forcing the issue. She is a San Francisco > liberal and those people want a clean environment to live in. > > >> Tell me again what you'd like to see (since it's not nuclear energy)? >> >> > > I would like to see clean, safe, renewable energy including solar, wind, > ocean, clean coal, which isn't renewable, but the USA has an abundance > of coal, biodiesel, other biofuels like ethanol, and petrol fuel to the > extent its from our own USA reserves. > > Regards, > > LelandJ > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.
