Re: Hoping for Good Gas News....

My Names Nobody wrote:
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Zombywoof wrote:
I would have expected to have your expectations as well. I was more
then a tad surprised. It has always been presented as a really BIG
problem by those in the anti-nuke camp.
If that is all the waste ever generated by ALL civilian nuclear power plants then I say lets fire up more of these puppies. I don't see where storing that amount of waste underground is that big of an issue. The tectonic plates don't move so fast that it is a concern, IMHO. I would rather spend the money here than ship it by the tanker load to the Middle East to fund their next wave of attacks. Thanks for the good information. BTW, is that 40k-mt figure just for the USA?
That's not even close, that is just the actual spent fuel rods, not all the tons of contaminated other parts, pieces, pipes, vessels, & thousands of gallons of contaminated liquids...
I guess the old saying still holds, "There's no such thing as a free lunch" but there is a lot of waste byproducts from coal and petroleum fired plants. The ones with the least impacts might be natural gas but they are the most expensive to operate.

Absolutely, but it is imperative on all of us to see that we aren't killing the whole heard just to eat one animal. :-) With the impending demise of hydro power, wind and solar sure do seem a lot more planet friendly than the current remaining options...

I think one very promising method is using tidal activity. Just think of the amount of energy it takes to raise and lower sea levels globally everyday by several feet. If we can tap into that energy in a meaningful way it would be a huge resource.
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