Posted on 05/25/2013 6:45:24 PM PDT by neverdem
Thorium reactors would be the perfect solution, which is why they will not be permitted.
‘The only source of energy that can meet global demand while avoiding greenhouse gas emissions is nuclear power’
This is misleading in so many ways. The largest greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is WATER VAPOR. It is impossible to produce large scale electricity without producing water vapor except in a damn. They keep tearing down the damns. All large scale power plants that are not damns are steam powered. Some use coal, some oil and some gas, but they all produce STEAM to run the dynamos.
This is the flaw. Carbon Dioxide is essential for life. No CO2, no plants. No plants, no oxygen. No oxygen, no humans.
More CO2, more plants, more life.
CO2 is not a poison, it is the essence of life.
I wouldn't want to live downwind form one of those power plants.
I understand your point, but it shows a drastic misunderstanding of how water vapor works in the atmosphere.
H2O is naturally present in up to 1 to 3 parts per hundred, not low parts per million, as with all the other greenhouse gases. Uniquely, it constantly goes in and out of the atmosphere by the processes of evaporation and condensation.
IOW, while man can affect the humidity somewhat in the locally by things such as irrigation systems, he is utterly incapable of affecting the amount of water vapor air on a global basis.
The teensy amounts produced by industrial processes are quite literally not measurable on a global scale relative to those produced by natural evaporation. 3/4 of the earth’s surface, after all, is water. When heated by the sun, it evaporates at an enormous rate.
These things can be quantified, if you like, but I hope you can just agree that man is not going to change the hydrologic cycle in any significant way. Just can’t do it. The only reason we can affect the amount of carbon, if indeed we are, is because there wasn’t much there to begin with.
The future of nuclear energy is LENR.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/coldfusion/index?tab=articles
Keywords: ColdFusion; LENR; lanr; CMNS ; ecat
The dose is the poison. CO2 is indeed a deadly toxin, as crews of a number of submarines have discovered. People living near volcanoes have also been killed.
Concentrations of 7% to 10% (70,000 to 100,000 ppm) will kill within minutes or hours. Course that''s a WHOLE lot less than the <400 ppm in the atmosphere now.
What energy crisis? Global warming is a hoax and we have an ample supply of carbon based fuels.
‘The only source of energy that can meet global demand while avoiding greenhouse gas emissions is nuclear power’
Why are you getting wrapped around the axle because of feel good BS?
There’s loads of thorium, and if that ADSR pans out, we can mix it with all the toxic, radioactive waste we already generated for more energy.
Right. Di-hydrogen monoxide is lethal as well.
Try to live without it.
Quite true.
As is oxygen, FTM.
I’m all for it, along with Cold Fusion and the XL Pipeline..
Dude, you clearly are not properly aligned with the low flush toilets.
The author is from the University of Huddersfield, UK. They do.
The University of Huddersfield in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, can trace its roots back to a Science and Mechanic Institute founded in 1825. It has two external campuses in Oldham, Greater Manchester, and Barnsley, South Yorkshire. A founding member of the Northern Consortium and member of Yorkshire Universities, it is among the top 10 greenest universities in Britain.
The same could be said about CO2. The teensy amount we produce pales in comparison to the amount produced by the oceans alone. Any excess produced by burning so called fossil fuels could be mitigated by the planting of trees.
I like the idea of Nuclear, or as GWB calls it Nucular, power. I just hate the thought that his very first statement is demonstrably incorrect.
But water is quite literally (and not in the Joe Biden sense) the most abundant material on Earth. And it is also remarkably easy to purify. Happens naturally all the time and even easy to duplicate synthetically.
I like nuclear energy. Using thorium would be great and I am all for it. t is that feel good BS is the reason why we will never utilize the energy.
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