Posted on 05/04/2008 4:53:59 PM PDT by Delacon
Ethanol ping.
Cheaper, ready, abundant. By all means, do nukes too. But the silliness blocking the most economical fuel there is, is all unjustified luddite nonsense, to the bottom.
and building more refineries
and telling the envir-O-NAZIs to go pound sand.
“Coal. Cheaper, ready, abundant. By all means, do nukes too. But the silliness blocking the most economical fuel there is, is all unjustified luddite nonsense, to the bottom.”
From the article: When an atom splits in two—which happens occasionally in nature and can be induced in a nuclear reactor—some binding energy is liberated. This energy release is two million times greater than any “chemical” releases that come in, say, an internal combustion engine or a coal-fired electrical generating plant. This 2-million differential explains why a 1,000-megawatt coal plant must be fed by a 110-car train loaded with 16,000 tons of coal arriving every day. Meanwhile a nuclear reactor of the same size is fed by a single flatbed truck that arrives with a new set of fuel rods once every 18 months. The energy stored in the nucleus of the atom is almost incomprehensibly larger than the energy stored in fossil fuels or the kinetic activity of wind, wave, or water.
I don’t expect y’all to agree with me on this.
Bravo!
Bump !
I have no problem with that at all.
We have enough to last about 500 years. Seriously.
liberal morons, missing the “rational thought” gene, believe the only energy we need will come from mister sun and mister wind. anything else is bad bad bad
The only reason anyone wouldn’t say coal first and foremost is they are unconsciously swayed by Al Gore’s global warming hoax. The USA is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
Well, I don’t have the stats but if we were talking actual costs of delivering say 1 million kilowats of electricity to a community by nuclear power versus coal power plants, I think they are pretty even. Someone correct me it I am wrong. Keep in mind that either one is charging exactly what the market will bear right now. A good indicator would be which one is turning a higher profit over all.
What?
If WE grow OUR corn, and burn it in a stove, feed it to the birds, or throw it away, what does this have to do with starving The Children™ in a "Developing Nation"? Does this mean the "Developing Nation" cannot grow its own food? If so, why do we call it "Developing" if it is nonviable?
-Unless the Writer is referring to handout recipients in corrupt regimes, who despise us. Is that what the writer meant?
We have enough uranium to last thousands of years if we go with a breeder system like the French Super-Phenix and fuel re-processing.
I do know that we have a good stock of uranium as well. I don’t know if anyone has done a “coal running out” before “native fissionable material” study.
There is that, and there is the fact that we export almost half of our grain crop as it is.
I notice the article referenced Global Warming, that sort of skewed the rest of it for me, especially the part about increasing capacity by planting more crops, growing more would be a good thing....
Why not build nuclear power plants to facilitate producing ethanol the way Dams were built to facilitate the Aluminum Industry?
Algore
‘But the trainload of coal is cheaper than the reactor, by miles. It isn’t the fuel cost, it is the whole equippage.”
Only because of the roadblocks put up in front of nuclear energy. In the early 70s nuke plants cost a fraction of what they did 10 years later.
Well said. Let the market decide what energy sources we use, not politicians. As for the folks in other countries who don’t like the price of food going up, three words. Grow. Your. Own. Or, maybe talk to OPEC and get them to lower their prices. In the long run, we’ve got the leverage that matters. We will adapt to new sources of energy and new methods of getting it. The oil ticks in the gulf get to go back to their camels.
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