Re: replaciong nuclear reactors

Angelo Campanella wrote: 
Dreamslayer wrote:

Steve Spence, please pick this apart if I've made a mistake...
Steam is power. Solar electrolytically applied makes O2 and H2, which recombine to make heat and H2O (plus trace NOx). The heat then boils more water (or suitable secondary compound) inside a steam system and voila! Power! 


    I cut to the quick:

RELIANCE ON NUCLEAR POWER WILL NOT AVOID GLOBAL WARMING, SINCE, LIKE ALL FOSSIL FUELS, NUCLEAR FISSION ENERGY THAT IS RELEASED FOR OUR CONSUMPTION HAS BEEN STORED IN THE GROUND FOR MANY MILLENNIA.

"USAGE", CONSTITUTING RELEASE, WILL INVARIANTLY ADD TO THE THERMAL LOAD SENT INTO OUR ATMOSPHERE. IN THIS REGARD, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CALORIE RELEASED FROM NUCLEAR FUEL AND A CALORIE RELEASED FROM FOSSIL FUEL.


There certainly is, but the way you state it, you aren't even wrong.

CO2 is a greenhouse gas, hydrocarbon combustion produces greenhouse gases, these in effect trap sunlight, so there is a difference between the nuclear calories released, and the hydrocarbon calories released, one set of calories encourages the retension of calories.


THE ONLY NON-LOADING METHOD AVAILABLE IS TO CAPTURE TODAY'S SUNLIGHT ENERGY, MOST OF WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN CAPTURED ANYWAY AS CALORIES INTO THE ATMOSPHERE, NOTWITHSTANDING ALBEDO.

CAPTURED SUNLIGHT ENERGY, E.G. PHOTOSYNTHESIZED HYDROCARBONS, CAN BE STORED INDEFINITELY, TO BE RELEASED ("USED") A FEW DAYS OR WEEKS LATER. THE HEAT BALANCE OF THE EARTH IS THEREBY AMELIORATED TO THE EXTENT THAT ALBEDO ALLOWS IT.

In addition, you neglect that "captured sunlight energy" is not available in totality for photosynthesis... regardless of tossing the albedo term around.

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