Posted on 09/14/2019 12:15:34 PM PDT by grundle
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Thanks for not stealing this for your blog but I don’t
think this qualifies as news. Really don’t. Cheers.
Recycling is impossible without lots of inexpensive energy.
To be pro-recycling but anti-nuclear is profoundly illogical and self-contradictory.
We don’t even know how to dispose of nuclear waste safely.
Nuclear power feels like a little kid behind the wheel of a Lamborghini in a crowded plaza.
Spent nuclear fuel rods can be recycled into new fuel. Except Jimmy Carter outlawed doing that.
Lift that, and most of the nuclear waste issue goes away.
Sure we do, we call them Breeder Reactors, see Nuclear Submarine.
Same goes for global warming worshipers who, if true to the tenets of their secular religion should passionately promote nuclear power.
“We dont even know how to dispose of nuclear waste safely.”
We do!
“Sure we do, we call them Breeder Reactors, see Nuclear Submarine.”
Why do yo refer to nuclear submarines?
“Same goes for global warming worshipers who, if true to the tenets of their secular religion should passionately promote nuclear power.”
The only global warming worshippers are the useful idiots.
Breeder reactors?
Nuclear power is why we should never, ever listen to the left on anything. Had we gone full blown nuclear power in the 70s, we would have achieved energy independence 2 or more decades ago. Relatively CLEAN energy independence without all this beyond stupid wind energy attempts.
Nuclear waste may create some issues, but not as many as solar and electric batteries produce.
OK, well, maybe so, didn’t know about that.
Everybody loves the Lamborghini but we haven’t shown that we know enough to prevent horrific disasters and prevent meltdowns once it has started. To me, I feel like we’re still a little kid trying to drive that big beautiful machine.
OK, well, maybe so, didnt know about that.
Everybody loves the Lamborghini but to me, we havent shown that we know enough to prevent horrific disasters and prevent meltdowns once it has started. To me, I feel like were still a little kid trying to drive that big beautiful machine.
We KNOW where and how, in Yucca Mountain, and the WIPP facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico.
We would have been up and running years ago, if Harry Reid hadn't blocked it until he could figure out how to profit off the site. His son owns big chunks of desert that the road to it would be built over.
One other point. And a Biggie.
Just because we don't recycle all the spent fuel NOW, does not mean we should bury it beyond access. It can be dangerous to chemically recycle, and a list of nuclear industrial accidents bears that out.
Besides, Carter didn't want breeder reactors, since, while they actually create nuclear fuel, the fuel is usable for weapons. The same guy, a f#$king Democrat, who walked us into the gas shortage, the Double Nickle, and the Iran Hostage crisis. Carter did a lot of damage in four years. That was when people still trusted presidents.
One of those industrial accidents, SL-1, one Ensign Carter worked on cleaning up, back in the early 50's.
You are absolutely 100% incorrect. It’s called a breader reactor, it processes spent fuel into fresh new fuel. We know how to make and operate them. We just don’t because of the anti nuclear crowd.
“but we havent shown that we know enough to prevent horrific disasters and prevent meltdowns once it has started.”
We know. We know how to drive cars safely but still have over 40,000 traffic deaths in the US each year.
Harry Reid stopped that with the help of Obama.
...Because there is not nearly enough highly radioactive water pouring into the Pacific Ocean?
Nuke power == Stranded asset.
The BrLP guys are making progress harnessing the process of taking the electron in a Hydrogen atom to a _lower_ than the ‘assumed’ ground state (as presently assumed/defined in QM).
Their latest vids show a calorimetry test in progress:
Time compressed (actual elapsed time = 1 hour) run in 120 gal water tank
https://youtu.be/x7CeIbmwIVk
Using calculators on this page, I estimate power (energy production rate) to be at least (well over?) 40 kW (which is nothing to sneeze at). 40 kW is one big water heater (166 Amps on a 240 V circuit.)
https://bloglocation.com/art/water-heating-calculator-for-time-energy-power
Assumptions:
1) 120 gal tank = 454 L (per video notes)
2) 1 Hour (per video notes)
3) End temp assumed 210 deg F (calculators do not assume steam or heat loss)
4) No steam production
Note: If water temp is 210 deg F at the 1 min mark (about 2/3 of the way through a 1 hr video) power output is closer to 60 kW.
Input “fuel” is basically 2 ounces of water’s worth of hydrogen instead of approx. 1.5 gallons of gasoline.
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