Nuclear Energy

Dunno about renewable, (it is relatively clean though) nuclear is definitely the way to go.. overdue for some newer, safer nuke plants, if you ask me

 

We have solar, on sunny days we produce more kilowatts then we use. How is that not efficient?

 

I don't know if you remember when we had "Brown outs." When power was scarce SDG&E would shut off the power to certain parts of the city and county so that there wouldn't be unscheduled power outages. When more and more people started to install solar we haven't had "brown outs" for over a decade. It's a start.
Nuclear is clean, it's dealing with the waste is the problem. It doesn't go away.

 

"Nuclear is clean, it's dealing with the waste is the problem. It doesn't go away"

Yep, X2....

 

Here's my latest report, multiple this by the thousands of people who have installed solar.

 

Well.. you can take the depleted stuff, make rounds out of it and turn it into the enemies' problem... Hahahaha

 

But would you live next to a nuclear waste storage facility?
Everything causes waste. Even the building of the canisters, and the building of the storage facilities.
San Onofre was shut down because of leakage. What if that got into the environment? There were sirens along the coast to warn of a nuclear accident from San Onofre.
Anywho, it's way pass my bedtime.
Like your Leo fishing reports.
PS, can you say 3 Mile Island?

 

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Three mile island radiation exposures were measured at less than a two hour flight in a plane, according to what I have read.. dunno how true, sounds right though..

 

According to wiki...

 

Morning all,
I was referring to a partial nuclear melt down from the 3 Mile Island nuclear power plant as the scary part.
Now I'm off to get the oil changed in the car and have breakfast. Leaving for Montana next month, yeah.
Post ya later dude. LOL

 

I'm all for nuclear energy. The US has never lost a reactor to a full meltdown (that I'm aware of. I can and will admit that I'm not exactly an expert on the subject). And I seem to recall reading into a good few incidents which were caused by human error, not issues with the system itself. No inherent pollution, and contained properly, the waste can be securely locked away. Hell, if we can somehow crack a way to safely dispose of radioactive waste into the sun, I'd say it would be an even better source of energy than it already is.
Nuclear power done right is perfectly safe, and in the long term very cost effective. We have a nuclear powered Navy for a reason, and our public energy sector could learn a thing or two from the Navy on how to effectively and safely run reactors and apply those lessons to reactors used to power the grid. Absolutely nothing we can do will make anything accident proof. To toss away an energy source because of this is really rather a folly.

 

Agreed with that. Wonder how many Musk-X rockets it would take to shoot all the word's spent nuclear waste into the sun each year? I wouldn't worry about any danger to the sun, heck the sun could swallow the entire earth and not even burp. I would kinda worry what could happen if that rocket blew up in the atmosphere...

 

Hence what we would have to suss out. Even one rocket has a glitch and goes boom and it could conceivably destroy the ecosphere. The other fun part would be finding enough/big enough rockets to send everything into space. I wouldn't even want to think about how much waste is just in Yucca Flats alone.

 

So, Occasional Cortex (sorry.. Ocasio-Cortez) is already on-record clearly stating that the world as we know it is going to end in 12 years. I understand how the young millennials, teenagers and the people of her district buy into everything this woman says.. they need to.. they've got nothing else to hang onto. They're bitter. they're bored, they're pizzed off at Trump (for being wealthy, I assume).. The leftists really weren't going down this road until she and the other two winners started popping-off with useless, left-field diatribe. But hey, if you're gonna hold a Congressional seat, you gotta talk like you know what you're talking about.

 

So. I’m no Nuclear Physicist but the debate here is:

Nuclear Fusion vs Nuclear Fission

Atomic Energy 101

Nuclear Fission = very very bad! Fission = Atomic Bomb, Nuclear Warheads and Current//Old Nuclear Power Plants.

Fission = Splitting Apart as in the old saying , “splitting the atom.”

Fusion is what we are really talking about here which is safer and the reaction is more “controllable.”

It’s cleaner but we are decades away from making it work “commercially” as in the power grid. BUT if we figure it out, this IS a VIABLE and safer option but Fission.....

Sun = Fusion.......very very good!

Just simplifying it for y’all.......

PS - I’m just a Business Major form SDSU - give me a product to sell, I’ll sell it, market it, manage it - Just don’t ask me to explain technically how it works!