Re: Renewable energy alternative
From: Antipodean Bucket Farmer (anyone_at_THE-DOMAIN-IN.SIG)
Date: 06/24/04
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:00:59 -0700
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wishdump@yahoo.com.au says...
> Are the proponents of massive expansion of nuclear energy production
> proposing it occur world wide or only within 'approved' nations? The
> limk between nuclear power and nuclear weapons is very strong. Lots of
> nations embarked on nuclear energy programs in order to develop bombs
> as much as to provide electricity.
> Finding nuclear capable nations that don't have
> or have ambitions to have the big bomb as a way to deter potential
> attackers can be difficult.
> Will the old nuclear powers really encourage or even allow developing
> nations to develop such technologies? Or will they only be allowed to
> buy it off those old powers without being permitted to acquire the
> capability themselves?
Nah, the countries with nuke-electric capability will
just use the electricity themselves, and pay some
desperate third-world country a few bucks to dump the
waste products there.
> I'm not convinced the waste problem is as easily or cheaply solved as
> the proponents claim.
See above. Dump it in someone else's backyard, which
is probably a barren desert, anyway.
> In a world where planning past a decade or two
> is the exception, planning for storage of wastes thousands of years
> into the future seems questionable.
A third-world country desperate for cash will only
think short-term. And their corrupt leaders' long-term
thinking will just be about taking in as much cash as
possible before retiring to luxurious exile following
the next revolution.
> Especially if the stuff is
> proliferating in places where standards may depend more on who's paid
> off whom than the kind of meticulous attention the stuff requires.
As long as it is buried in someone else's desert, and
won't pollute the producers' countries, that is far
enough for them. They will, of course, encase the
waste in some way that makes it too expensive to re-
refine into weapons-grade.
> When the entire world budget for renewable energy
> research is less than gets spent on a few hundred kilometers of
> freeway, it's very clear the will to really act just isn't there. And
> it's a good indicator of just where Our priorities lie.
The average inhabitant of a developed country seems to
have their priorities focused upon watching Tee-Vee,
coveting money, consumer goods, sex, junk food, etc.
Those things help them avoid the effort of cranking up
a few brain cells and seeing anything complex or
inconvenient.
> Perhaps this
> is a form of democratic choice but even in so called democracies we
> need leadership that acts on best available information for the good
> of their respective nations.
Forget democracy.
In fact, come to think of it... That could be another
idea for mitigating things like the physical risks of
nuke-electricity... Maybe invade some impoverished,
unpopular desert country, and put the dangerous nuke-
electric plants there...
> I'm hoping the essentially decent nature
> of Americans comes through and the good of the USA doesn't come
> through depriving other nations of any decent future.
LOL!
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