Re: What is the next technology revolution ?

Carlos Moreno <moreno_at_mochima_dot_com@xxxxxx> wrote:

>What I mean is the following: perhaps the *only* viable
>solution to dispose of nuclear waste is burial *because*
>we're producing just a bit of energy, not enough to make
>some other solutions viable -- when you think about it, if
>you have a lot of extra energy, then perhaps a 5 or 10% of
>inefficiency given by having to spend massive amounts of
>energy in launching those containers with nuclar waste to
>outer space could become realistic -- launching those to
>outer space is today ridiculously unrealistic because the
>energy is too expensive -- because we do not have an
>extremely efficient source of it. The argument is kind
>of recursively self-enforcing -- what a beauty! :-)).

Both these methods assume it's desirable to put the nuclear
waste somewhere where you can forget about it. A much better
plan is to keep it somewhere where you can watch it -- also
pretty expensive.

Steve
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