Posted on 12/23/2019 4:08:19 PM PST by rktman
President Donald Trump continued his campaign against windmills on Saturday, issuing one of the most detailed takedowns to date of one of the environmentalist’s favorite forms of energy.
In a speech to Turning Point USA activists in Palm Beach Florida, the president mocked the idea of a windmill-driven economy proposed by Democrats promoting the “Green New Deal” in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail.
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For Democrats this is easy: just move the goalposts out another 10 years and keep trying to gain total control over our lives.
I’m also in Nevada, hoping the idiot mandate can be repealed sooner than later.
It will eventually be repealed, or continually delayed, when it becomes impossible to deny that it is IMPOSSIBLE to achieve.
Dare I mention my own support for new generation Nuclear power here tonight?
Saw the shouting match above.
Surprised at it. There have been several threads here and elsewhere examining new nuclear tech that cannot melt-down.
Most are due to designs that require a form of energy input to sustain the reaction.
Power is interrupted the reaction ceases, simple and elegant.
No, I do not have links, but do recall the articles.
That wasn’t a dream. It was real.
44 billion cancer cases would be catastrophic.
You did in post 33.
https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Generation_IV_nuclear_reactors
The link is one example for your consideration. the situation you describe is from what has been termed a gen 2 nuclear reactor, (three mile island — Chernobel) The reactions that I was describing are not available and already producing, but they are what we must do. The science is moving in this direction and labs and test facilities are up and proving the concepts. The eventual reactors will be small and modular and will probably be located with present reactors as they can be built to use spent reactor rods as fuel — This is the solution to the waste issue which you don’t rasse but is nevertheless a valid point.
But the necessary concept for safety is that the shut down, (I don’t know it the term scram is applicable to gen 4 or not) but the shut down causes the reactor to stop generating heat. (Even total powew loss will result in a cool reactor. Thus the most common form of reactor hazard is gone. Other problems are addressed as well because finally someone thought about engineering the reactor system to actually be safe rather than be safe if the operators don’t make mistakes, because you cannot require operators to not make mistakes, It will never happen, so you have to be safe when the mistakes are made. BTW, we are building gen 3 reactors today and I understand that they have not had any accidents.
I know that the future designs are not build yet, and I hate to say they are ten years away, because we have all heard this forever about fusion systems which are still 30 years away. I will go with gen 4 and follow Mike Shellenberger on twitter for more.
Liberals want to kill birds. Another reason to hate them.
hey, you’re the one making the claim “meltdown proof molten salt nuclear reactors”
not me
I hear the ‘next generation socialism’ is really great too.
No problems like the previous versions.
Btw, I know first hand how programs deemed to be approved, are forced through regardless of ‘flags’ of concerns. Once a government project is on the tracks, reports ‘must’ support the desired goal.
everything nuclear works perfectly.
on paper
nice try. Pu239 plutonium a fission byroduct, has a halflife of 24,110 years.
It has been estimated that a pound (454 grams) of plutonium inhaled as plutonium oxide dust could give cancer to two million people.
Apples and oranges. marktwain is writing about the hazard from ionizing radiation. You can sit next to a chunk of Pu and it will not harm you much from the alpha emission. You'd be better off swallowing a gram of Pu than a gram of arsenic.
You are writing of metal toxicity and alpha emission in the lungs. Pu dust in the lungs is a bad place for alpha emitters, causing radiation induced cancers. Pu is also a toxic metal on its own, able to be taken up by cells.
Now compare Pu to polonium-210 with a half life of 140 days. It too is an alpha emitter, but at a much higher rate than Pu. It also gets taken up by cells, but is not chemically toxic. The alpha emission is spread throughout your body and you die from radiation poisoning.
The best way to get rid of Pu is to consume it in a reactor. But society doesn't want nations accumulating Pu-239. The next best way is to stick in a cask and store underground, the best place would be a subduction zone (but tricky).
Nuclear is definitely the way to go for clean air, but Trump needs to stay on message and this tilting at windmills isn’t it, the message is the economy and jobs ,jobs jobs-that is how he can get reelected
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