I invite you to the discussion opened by me:
https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/ideas-for-hydrogen-fusion.140563/

 

We have a perfect solution staring Us in the face and we're totally ignoring it.

At the level of the general population, acceptance of nuclear power is slowly recovering, and there are people out there working hard and pushing forward. I'm optimistic the new designs will get a fair assessment but it's so frustratingly slow!

One big problem is highlighted in the table. You can't easily justify investing in nuclear plants if there is no government subsidy for its no-carbon advantage. Without that, you may as well build natural gas plants. Cheaper, well-known technology, still improving.

 

and making us waste all this money on these stupid "renewable" sources like wind and solar. Wind and solar are great, but they don't come anywhere close to nuclear. We have a perfect solution staring Us in the face and we're totally ignoring it./

True its the nuclear waste that is a problem. But please do not shit on renewable energy because stupid is the energy on the free market.

 

True its the nuclear waste that is a problem. But please do not shit on renewable energy because stupid is the energy on the free market.

Yes, because "free market" == "stupid".

 

Yes, because "free market" == "stupid".

Only when it suites those who overpower the rest.

Questions?

 

Questions?

Only one: why do you participate?

 

Only one: why do you participate?

Because you're on the wrong path.

 

Sorry. Joey. Drugs are getting the best of us.

 

True its the nuclear waste that is a problem. But please do not shit on renewable energy because stupid is the energy on the free market.

Huh?

 

I found the numbers that wayneh provided a bit puzzling, so I did some looking and ran across this. Found it quite informative.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/inform...profiles/countries-t-z/usa-nuclear-power.aspx

 

Huh?

Waste is a problem(radioactive) or not

 

Nuclear ain't renewable. Weather is though.( until we fuck it up beyond repair)

 

Waste is a problem(radioactive) or not

I generate more waste in my home per year than a nuclear plant that powers a whole city.

Stop regurgitating the false media image of a dusty warehouse full to the ceiling with leaky drums of glowing green ooze.

 

I generate more waste in my home per year than a nuclear plant that powers a whole city.

Stop regurgitating the false media image of a dusty warehouse full to the ceiling with leaky drums of glowing green ooze.

Sorry man that was not what I meant. Nuclear beats oil, coal.... anytime

However nuclear isn't renewable and has side effects.

 

Sorry man that was not what I meant. Nuclear beats oil, coal.... anytime

However nuclear isn't renewable and has side effects.

Solar, wind, and hydro have side effects, too.

 

Solar, wind, and hydro have side effects, too.

The mass killing of endangered fish, birds, and other wildlife is ok as long as it is done with the best of intentions.

Intentions count, not results.

 

Solar, wind, and hydro have side effects, too.

True and there is only so much that we can harvest that way without having a large impact on the flora and wildlife. Which is why I addressed the matter because in one way or another our need for energy which all of us know is growing per year, will become a "big" problem for us and everything living on the planet at some point unless we really think about what we're going to do about where we are heading.

I'm sorry I don't have the solutions and it's eating at me even though I might not even live to see it get that bad.

 

Photovoltaic panels ?
What is their efficiency? 4%....7%??????????????

They cover a land where plants would have grown.
If the plants are fat, oil production, and from the oil used in the kitchen you can produce biodiesel.
Maybe it has greater efficiency.

Maybe plants use sunlight with greater efficiency than solar panels.
But someone is working on research and studying solar panels.
The state pays you to buy them. Strange, is not it?

Solar panels are good when you have a calculator, a portable radio, on satellites ......

 

I'm sorry I don't have the solutions and it's eating at me even though I might not even live to see it get that bad.

Your angst is a product of your liberal teachers instilling fear in you all your life that mankind -- and his interactions with mother earth -- are bad.

Get over it. Capitalism will solve any problems when and as necessary. Government -- and its guns -- not required.

 

Stop regurgitating the false media image of a dusty warehouse full to the ceiling with leaky drums of glowing green ooze.

Well, sort of. From here
https://bizwest.com/2011/10/07/nuclear-fuel-rests-in-peace-near-fort-st-vrain/

PLATTEVILLE — For nearly 20 years, spent nuclear fuel has been stored at a little-noticed concrete facility just north of the Fort St. Vrain Power Station northwest of Platteville.

Recently, the facility — called the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Facility — received approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to continue storing the high-level radioactive waste for another 20 years.

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At one time, the nuclear industry pinned its hopes on storing waste at a deep underground facility in Nevada called Yucca Mountain. But environmental concerns and political wrangling have apparently pulled that option off the table for the foreseeable future.

Instead, spent nuclear waste continues to be stored on-site or near reactors in 33 states, including at Fort St. Vrain, which served as a nuclear power station from 1979 to 1989.