Re: Can hydrogen deliver?

From: Dez Akin (dezakin_at_usa.net)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: 6 Oct 2004 10:55:24 -0700

"Tim O'Flaherty" <pinwheels_Fudge_@gwi.net> wrote in message news:<zMGdnSAQg-8G0v7cRVn-uQ@gwi.net>...
> "Dez Akin" <dezakin@usa.net> wrote in message
> news:dd43b4da.0410051103.a7bac54@posting.google.com...
> > "Tim O'Flaherty" <pinwheels_Fudge_@gwi.net> wrote in message
> news:<MpCdneVRE7jQf_zcRVn-tQ@gwi.net>...
> >
> > Why exactly is storing waste above ground in canisters a problem?
> > Yucca Mt is a political solution to a non-problem. Stick them in an
> > empty parking lot for all the danger they cause.
> >
>
> Well hop in your minivan and get out here and pick up the 1434 spent fuel
> rods here in Wiscasset Maine. Take 'em home and put them in YOUR parking
> lot. Come to beautiful Maine. The leaves are about to peak and you can do
> some antiquing on the way back.

If the law allowed it I'd be glad to. I'm sure I'd make a tidy profit.
These wastes will even have market value at some point, but until then
I can charge a tidy fee for 'disposal' at my parking lot, or under my
house.

> > And really, in the speculative scenario of 100% nuclear power, you can
> > certainly wager that molten salt breeder reactors will play a very
> > large role, given they have the lowest cost fuel cycle... and
> > incidentally can burn spent fuel from LWRs, producing less than
> > 1/100th the waste with 1/1000th the half life.
>
> You forgot the fine print, the disclaimer....

Which has nothing to do with the argument at hand. Oh well.

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> conditions, and notices.

Really, whats the point of this long winded response? This is
certainly the case for any other industry, including wind energy. I'll
take a Chernobyl over a Bhopal any day.

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