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To: discostu
Less than the same wattage in windmills, and it’ll be up 24/7 which windmills won’t, and you can put it in parts of the country that don’t get useful wind for windmills, and it will take significantly less space. Nuke plants are better in every possible way.

Nukes are less good in that there is not an infinite supply of fuel, less than one might expect actually, and the spent fuel must be safeguarded from all threats for....how many thousand years? It turns out that people don't like them and will protest their construction. It isn't even clear how much it would cost to build one today.

64 posted on 12/09/2009 7:36:11 AM PST by DungeonMaster (camel, eye of a needle; rich man, heaven)
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To: DungeonMaster

Wind doesn’t really have an infinite supply either, like I’ve already said there’s plenty of places that don’t get windmill useful wind ever, and even in places that do the wind periodically goes away. And as for nukes spent fuel if we weren’t so silly we could get rid of it easily. People don’t like nuke plants because moron hippies can’t hear the word “nuclear” without thinking of “bomb”, they get built in countries that don’t let idiot hippies make decisions. One of the great ironies of the world is that the only country to ever be nuked gets nearly twice as much (by percentage) of its electricity from nuke plants as the country that nuked them.


66 posted on 12/09/2009 7:41:57 AM PST by discostu (The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression)
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