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« on: May 24, 2004, 01:08:43 pm »

     Here's the story, pulled from Slashdot.
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« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2004, 08:38:47 pm »

nice article indeed.
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« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2004, 01:36:11 am »

Fight the evil with a bigger evil.
We need to spend more money and do more research in renewable resources.
Biomass energy, Hydroelectric energy, Solar energy, Wind energy, Wave energy, Geothermal Energy.
All off these forms of energy were deemed too expensive to develop and produce.
Granted at first building the facilities will be more expensive, but in the long run they will get
more profitable, and above all far less damaging to the environment; and we won't run out off wind, sun rays, tidal movement etc etc.
High level nuclear waste stays hazardous for TEN THOUSANDS of years (that is a hell of long time to store this shit properly)

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« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2004, 01:38:32 am »

Interesting but i disagree with a few points....

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On that basis, he says, there is simply not enough time for renewable energy, such as wind, wave and solar power - the favoured solution of the Green movement - to take the place of the coal, gas and oil-fired power stations whose waste gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), is causing the atmosphere to warm.

He believes only a massive expansion of nuclear power, which produces almost no CO2, can now check a runaway warming which would raise sea levels disastrously around the world, cause climatic turbulence and make agriculture unviable over large areas. He says fears about the safety of nuclear energy are irrational and exaggerated, and urges the Green movement to drop its opposition.

How long does it take to build from start to finnish a nuclear reactor? much longer than it takes to build a few wind farms... and a lot more expensive - it allso requires far more resorces.
If, globally people got on board in shifting our sources of energy then the renuable sources of energy are more than feasable... If goverments were less interested in what the multinational Petrolium and oil compainies had to say, if goverment members did not have significant members sitting on the boards of oil and neuclear compainies... then maybe just maybe we might progress a little faster.

It requires capital. but considering its a one of payment and then free return thats not bad going when you compaire it to running a nuclear power plant!
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« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2004, 08:52:19 pm »

It isn't the time to start harvesting renewable energy, unless you can take down the oil and coal tycoons. These guys that own nonrenewable resources aren't going let their business die, which rakes in godly amounts of money, to people that want to do good for the Earth. All they care about is money, which is a shame.  
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