Re: Scotland's beautiful countryside gravely threatened by new mega pylons PLEASE HELP


"Robert Peffers" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> So, in relation to more than one topic on this group, We generate more
> power in Scotland and export it to England and across the Irish Sea but
> there are loses in the system which means it would be more efficient to
> generate the power nearer to the main user bases in the first place. So
> what about building power stations in the centre of London? There really
> is no need for a nuclear fired station in some remote Highland or
> Yorkshire Mooreland where few people live but great need for power in
> central London.

Quite right. A fission reactor in Westminster would be ideal - positioned
well to supply the power needs of London, and those in charge of the safety
standards are the first to suffer if they are not up to scratch. All the
waste can be buried underneath too, on-site storage reducing risks of
transfer.

>That little formula also shows the weakness of certain posters objections
>to the use of nuclear fired stations as it shows the simple fact that we
>add nothing overall to the total radioactivity of the World by our use of
>nuclear fuels. We dig the stuff up, process it and fuel our reactors with
>it. We are left with waste but physics shows that we cannot end up with
>more power than we started with. So the overall total must be less for we
>have extracted power from the fuel so there must be less power left in that
>waste.

Ah, a fallacy I'm afraid. Radioactivity is not the same as power, it is a
measure of how stable a mass is. While the total of everything within the
system will total the same amount of energy as you started with (remembering
that mass = energy), you can change the proportions of energy to mass and
the stability of the mass too. You can add energy to non-radioactive mass
(e.g. from a radioactive source) and make it unstable i.e. radioactive.

As an analogy, if you have a pile of bottles and smash them up, you end up
with the same quantity of glass but it's not so useful for feeding milk to
the children from.

Beannachd leibh
Stephen
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