Re: More lies and bull*** from the National Academy of Sciences

On 24 Jun 2006 21:19:15 -0700, "quietguy" <grnordgarden@xxxxxxx>
wrote:


da pickle (nospam) wrote:
The thing about breeder reactors is that you get more out than you put in
... it is the original perpetual motion machine.

Not quite. You're forgetting the energy needed to enrich the uranium.
Whether it's done by gaseous diffusion or centrifugal separation (which
takes only about 5 percent as much energy), you still expend more
energy on enrichment, building the reactor and the bomb, etc. than you
get out of the bang. The Universe always takes a rake off the pot...

In the case of nuclear power plants, where is the rake collected?
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