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To: Arkansas Toothpick

How would building nuclear power plants lower gasoline prices? Next to no petroleum is used generate electricity. Much of the petroleum that is used is refinery “leftovers”; residual oil and petroleum coke that remain after product like gasoline and diesel have been removed from the crude oil.


49 posted on 03/20/2008 12:49:01 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

I think we can all agree that growing more corn is the only real way to the greedy capitalist oil companies in their place.


51 posted on 03/20/2008 2:35:17 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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How would building nuclear power plants lower gasoline prices?

Fluid mechanics is primarily a manipulation of Bernoulli's principle, which is simply the equivalence of the various forms of Newtonian energy in fluid form, pressure, elevation in a gravitational field, velocity of mass. They can be easily, and are routinely throughout the mechanical world, transposed to one form or the other. When a bungee jumper departs the New River bridge, his initial potential energy of elevation is variously transformed into the kinetic energy of descent, the extended energy of the spring (bungee cord) and his changing elevation; and subsequently transformed back again, ad infinitum until entropy saps it all.

As posts #42 and #45 above imply, nuclear energy, gasoline, coal, and renewables, are all the same thing. It can be measured in Joules, BTU's, calories, electron volts, and a few other units. But all the same thing. And the sooner ignorant politicians, and economists, understand it the better off we, in the United States, will be.

This arrogance knows no party boundaries.

53 posted on 03/20/2008 2:46:46 PM PDT by jnsun (The LEFT: The need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer)
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