Re: Conclusive physical evidence for AWG?

In <d461549c-d78e-49e0-b21d-272317a06b79@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:

On 8 feb, 06:35, m...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Bill Slomanwrote:
Once we go over to sustainable energy sources - wind power, solar
power and hydro power - you can take as many hots showers as
you like, and drive everywhere in your electric car, without running
any risk of ruining the earth.

Not acceptable to Greenies.

Who cares what the lunatic fringe of the Green movement thinks?

Wind turbines kill birds.

Until they learn to do better. It is called evolution in action -
perfectly green.

Solar cells are made with nasty chemicals.

As is pretty much everything else in the modern world. Chemists - and
I've got a Ph.D. in the subject - do know how to keep nasty chemicals
out of the environment. Some cheap-skate manufacturers do try and save
money by neglecting to implement the - not very expensive - measures
involved, but that might justify more inspectors, nt a ban on
manufacturing solar cells.

Greenies are trying to tear down dams, not build more of them.

Only the very lunatic fringe.

The French have the right idea.  Nuclear reactors.  Many, many
nuclear reactors. A breeder reactor is the ultimate in renewable
energy.

It is also an excellent source of plutonium - which is one of the
reasons the French like them so much, and a worrying source of long-
lived high level radioactive waste. Even perfectly sane greenies have
legitimate anxieties about getting rid of the waste.

I'm no greenie, but I've still got reservations about nuclear waste.

There are solutions for nuclear waste. One is to dump it in a salt
dome, such as one that used to have oil but had the oil pumped out. Those
have been stable long enough to hold oil formed many million years ago.

Once the borehole is plugged up with concrete over most of its depth,
security requirements should be minimal. Redrilling into the salt dome
would be visible to surveillance satellites.

I also think that dumping it into a depleted uranium mine would be OK,
since uranium stayed there safely for tens or hundreds of millions of
years.

It appears to me that the main barriers are political. There are the
NIMBYs, and also anti-nukers who don't want a solution for waste disposal
since a solution would enable more nuclear power.

- Don Klipstein (don@xxxxxxxxx)
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