Re: Will Hydrogen be the fuel of the future?

"Elliot Richmond" <xmrichmond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jerry Osage wrote:
I think that nuclear power offers the most viable long term solution.
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If we had all the nuke plants we need, many parts of the country could
stop using fuel oil, propane and natural gas for heating. Can you
imagine what that would do to available supplies?
Spot-on, LZ. A program like that s/b implemented today with the same kind
of urgency as the Manhattan Project was done.

Unlike my fellow envirowackos, I have long advocated using nuclear
energy for electricity generation. It is safe, clean, and in
utility-scale systems, cost-effective. Waste can be stored on-site for
at least 100 years. In that length of time, we should be able to
figure out a way to safely dispose of the stuff. I suggest magnetic
launchers that would send containers of the material on a trajectory
to fall into the sun. It is almost within our technological ability to
I don't know about that...I'd rather the trajectory was into Saudi Arabia,
Iran, Venezuela, and the like. That s/b well within our capability
today...(:-o)!

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However, I also see this as a short term solution. Nuclear fuel is a
limited commodity. Even with fast-breeder reactors, we will eventually
run out of that fuel.
Possible, I guess...but given the amount of that material in the earths
crust...that's gonna take some REAL doing...(:-o)!


L8r all,
Dusty


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