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12-14-2008, 05:33 PM
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Friends: 3 |  Excellent article - Obama and Dire Global Warming This is an excellent article on Obama and Global Warming: Obama left with little time to curb global warming - Yahoo! News |
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Friends: 1 | Re: Excellent article - Obama and Dire Global Warming Steve "Coal is My Worst Nightmare" Chu is a wonderful and exciting choice for Obama's Secretary of Energy as he has shown true vision and leadership for energy sustainability. I just hope that he is able to navigate the world of politics as succesfully as he has with science and technology. |
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Friends: 6 | Re: Excellent article - Obama and Dire Global Warming They're quite different to each other, those worlds. It's a tough ask but hopefully he's up to it. |
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Friends: 0 | Re: Excellent article - Obama and Dire Global Warming Dang it. I hope Chu really does push for Nuclear power.... This whole global warming thing really has me heated |
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12-15-2008, 01:01 AM
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12-15-2008, 05:52 AM
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Friends: 33 | Re: Excellent article - Obama and Dire Global Warming I worked out, fossil fuel is energy from the earths past, nuclear is borrowing energy from out future generations. Our kids kids will pay for our short sightedness for hundreds of generations because of nuclear energy. |
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12-15-2008, 06:41 PM
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Friends: 6 | Re: Excellent article - Obama and Dire Global Warming yes and no. Coal has a large radioactive footprint than nukes. Reprocessing of fuel would drastically reduce the amount of waste but I think you get some rather unsavouring products as a result. |
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12-15-2008, 06:42 PM
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Friends: 6 | Re: Excellent article - Obama and Dire Global Warming There are some reactors that can use thorium too, I don't know what sort of waste products are produced and how nasty they are. The CANDU reactor is one such type. Jayman knows something about that design, perhaps he can comment on the thorium by products. Jayman? |
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Friends: 14 | Re: Excellent article - Obama and Dire Global Warming China plans to purchase and install a large number of AP1000s from Westinghouse - 10 or possibly many more over the next decade? This is quite a safe design, as such things go, with passive rather than active emergency core cooling. Apparently China also plans to make a (large) number of pebble bed reactors that can use the thorium cycle, but I do not see the definite plans on paper. The other nations with large building plans are Russia and India. Russia will make their own (of course) and I don't know what india plans. The US may or may not decide to accelerate the licensing of new plants, but the Westinghouse technology is available now.
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