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Nuclear power has political meltdowns

Nuclear power has political meltdownsNo surprises.It was a government run entity. Of course it was overrunning costs. That's what government entities do.Nuclear waste is way less toxic than your current nemesis: coal ash heaps. It's just that people have been successfully indoctrinated to think that nuclear radiation is the most...

Tags: Nuclear Waste, nuclear energy, political meltdown, reactor, meltdown, government, nuclear waste

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

Nuc news is not good news

Nuc news is not good newsNever win?So, we can use any alternative energy to fossil fuels we want - as long as it's not anything that is proven and can be done large scale. Can we ever win?We demand a lot of energy - and that energy has to come...

Tags: Nuclear Waste, atom, nuclear energy

Discussion threads 2009-01-31

Nuclear renaissance has sprung a leak, or several leaks

Nuclear renaissance has sprung a leak, or several leaksWe certainly do know what to do with the waste.The waste from fission reactors can be reprocessed to recover unused fuel, while the rest can be condensed and stored. We have a waste repository waiting in Nevada (you know, the place...

Tags: leak, renaissance, nuclear energy, Nuclear renaissance, Nuclear Waste

Discussion threads 2008-08-10

Nuclear waste, cheaper than Iraq, more expensive than a new laptop

Nuclear waste, cheaper than Iraq, more expensive than a new laptopThe answer to your questionis that deluded eco-socialists like yourself are the problem. Every time a nuclear waste solution is proposed, your ilk is there at the front lines doing their damndest to shut it down.That's why. Look in the...

Tags: laptop computer, more-expensive, new laptop, nuclear energy, Nuclear waste

Discussion threads 2008-02-19

Boron buckyballs are coming

Boron buckyballs are comingBoron BuckyballsTHis could be the beginning of the technology needed to advance the research into effective methods of containing nuclear waste. Boron is quite effective as a neutron sponge, it's structure absorbs those extra neutrons generated in a reactor core and could be effective in surrounding...

Tags: Semiconductors, reactor, NanoApex, nanotechnology, Boron, carbon, nuclear waste

Discussion threads 2007-04-24

Additional Resources

Remember Kerry-Boxer?

Will it also......restore funding and finally open the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository?Never mind. Stupid question. No bill will pass a Democrat dominated Congress that actually encourages nuclear energy. That was the entire reason for killing Yucca Mountain, as if it had opened it would have removed...

Tags: NWR, nuclear energy

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Water, water everywhere. So why not use it to create steam?

Here is a lesson on how little we can put in the blog...and still call it our own. Could you write less and still get paid ???sheshEver heard of Nuclear powered ships? They heat water that flashes into steam and thus turns the turbines.This short article.I think the...

Tags: Fuel cells, hydrogen, steam

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

What's a brick?

CinderblockMany years ago a product called cinderblock was made from coal fire residue. It was similar to standard concrete block. In many cases, over time, it proved far less satisfactory. One big problem was degradation in a wet environment. It would get sort of mushy and...

Tags: ash, fly ash

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy

I've blogged before about the need for a new energy calculus. Not just market and whosesale costs to the user of the energy. Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven't we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and...

Tags: Coal, Inconvenient Truth, Energy, Food & Beverage, Mortgages, Manufacturing, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-17

Coin-sized nuclear batteries to revolutionise electronics

.. Nice post for a change. Good job. ntntA beautiful dream...and then reality hitspeople have been so indoctrinated that nuclear material is the most toxic substance on the planet and even saying the word will give you cancer, that this has about as much chance as a snowball in hell...

Tags: Engineering, nuclear-battery, Coin-sized nuclear-battery, alpha, cell, electronics

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

(NASA spacecraft crashes into the moon)

Total Waste of MaterialLets see, we explode a bomb and crash a satellite into the moon to try and confirm whether or not water is on it. And for what purpose? To make another return trip to the moon? To build space colonies? We don't have...

Tags: spacecraft, NASA, Darwin

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Uncle Sam: less wasteful?

President Obama has just solidified his lasting credentials...as being hopeful. He actually is trying to push energy efficiency inside the federal government, America's largest energy consumer. Solar Humvees in Iraq? Fewer limos with their motors running at Dulles Airport? Shut down Washington D.C. in August and...

Tags: President, Barack Obama, Real Estate, Construction, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-07

California screenin': Majority of residents oppose big-screen TV ban

Regulate power, not sizeThey should be regulating the power consumption of TVs, not necessarily their size. Force the companies to make big screen TVs less power hungry and more efficient. Not flat out ban them.TVs should strive to be Energy Star compliant because I'm sure many of them...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, big-screen TV

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Large Hadron Collider to restart in November

That sure is one heck of a COIL.I'd like to be there when they fire it off. Nothing better than cutting EDGE. BLEED!Detector That is actually a detector not a coil....RE: Large Hadron Collider to restart in Novemberwill it cure cancer, solve world hunger, clean the oceans, ready set...

Tags: Short-sighted people, CERN

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Nuclear recycling--a thing of the past?

Nuclear recycling--a thing of the past?Nuclear power is our ONLY long-term source of powerWhen it comes down to it that is reasonably 'inexhaustible' and 'able to meet our energy demands'.Sure, we should be cutting down or trying to cut down on the amount of energy that we are using.... but...

Tags: uranium, nuclear energy, recycling

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

Nuclear power has political meltdowns

A next generation nuclear power plant was being developed in Ontario. Now all work has been stopped. The price tag was climbing and the provincial government pulled the plug even though it's pledged to close all coal-burning plants there within five years. Right now about half of Ontario's...

Tags: Nuclear Energy, Finland, Ontario, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. House

Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. HouseCap & Trade is corrupted from the get-goWithin a dozen years we'll revisit the whole concept and maybe do it right.Or...Try to work the unworkable until the die-off kicks in.RE: Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. HouseI'm sure the White House support...

Tags: Waxman-Markey, U.S. House, carbon dioxide, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Is there a green fossil fuel?

The natural gas interests are interested in the being the first choice fuel in the American future. A report just issued from the Potential Gas Committee sure makes natural gas look like the best potential fuel for generating electricity in coming decades. The U.S. is actually adding to...

Tags: Coal, Natural Gas, Fossil Fuel, Natural Gas Interest, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Coal ash:coal=radioative waste:nuc power

Coal ash:coal=radioative waste:nuc powerI love it when senatorsact as innocent bystanders to the problems they create.Total Socialist Control.......Socialist Government is going to take over Healthcare, GM, Chrysler, Energy, Taxing you for everything.Yet destroy the entire economic infrastructure knowing it will cause massive unemployment and continue to print fake money by...

Tags: Socialist Government, coal, ash, socialist, coal ash

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

I haven't had a good rant recently

I haven't had a good rant recentlyheh . . ."This is why we ZDNet bloggers tend to stick to our area of expertise so we don?t say anything stupid about, say, rain forest frogs, if we don?t know anything about frogs of the rain forest."Well, an occasional ZDNet blogger has...

Tags: E-books, textbook

Discussion threads 2009-04-28