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Invalid user 2019 04 Aug 19 6.50pm | |
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Originally posted by ASCPFC
I find it pretty funny that we don't use our flooding/ fast flowing rivers to create energy. One would think a few modern turbines would create a hell of a lot of free/ cheap electricity. Ancient civilisations used water wheels, the factories/ mills of the industrial revolution used them but we seem to prefer expensive massive wind farms that are costly to maintain, an eyesore and a nuisance and incredibly inefficient. The French model of nuclear power seems to have far less problems than everyone else's. Good call. There are numerous solutions. Also efficient energy storage has long been a head scratcher but rail systems and the like offer surprisingly effective and innovative solutions.
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Midlands Eagle 05 Aug 19 6.45am | |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
As I understand it, there is no way that the current options of non fossil, non nuclear energy sources can get anywhere meeting increasing energy demands. Therefore their proliferation will do little to reduce the problems associated with traditional energy production while creating new environmental problems. I expect that he government will do an about turn shortly and announce that previous findings were wrong and diesel engines are the way forward
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Hrolf The Ganger 05 Aug 19 11.31am | |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
An interesting element comrade. Element 115. As I'm sure you are aware. Bob Lazar talked about it years before it was synthesised. Funny how the Americans and Russians went to all that trouble.
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Stirlingsays 05 Aug 19 11.58am | |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Element 115. As I'm sure you are aware. Bob Lazar talked about it years before it was synthesised. Funny how the Americans and Russians went to all that trouble. Call me a sheep Hrolf but I can't help but be highly skeptical of Lazar.
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Hrolf The Ganger 05 Aug 19 1.13pm | |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
Call me a sheep Hrolf but I can't help but be highly skeptical of Lazar. It's wise to question the credibility but he knew about that and night tests of weird and wonderful aircraft and where they happened before anyone had heard of this stuff. Keep an open mind.
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.TUX. 05 Aug 19 8.11pm | |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
It's wise to question the credibility but he knew about that and night tests of weird and wonderful aircraft and where they happened before anyone had heard of this stuff. Keep an open mind. This.
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Badger11 Beckenham 06 Aug 19 7.00am | |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
Thorium. Thank you. On another thread I posted about an alternate nuclear energy but couldn't remember it's name. The Americans had a design back in the 1950's but didn't go ahead because it didn't create plutonium. Apparently the Chinese are working on it now and expect to build one in the next 10 years. In theory it's far safer than the current ones and would mean that countries like North Korea and Iran could build them as they are only for energy creation. As for green energy it all depends on storage if the battery technology improves then it becomes sustainable.
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Stirlingsays 06 Aug 19 7.36am | |
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Originally posted by Badger11
Thank you. On another thread I posted about an alternate nuclear energy but couldn't remember it's name. The Americans had a design back in the 1950's but didn't go ahead because it didn't create plutonium. Apparently the Chinese are working on it now and expect to build one in the next 10 years. In theory it's far safer than the current ones and would mean that countries like North Korea and Iran could build them as they are only for energy creation. As for green energy it all depends on storage if the battery technology improves then it becomes sustainable. I agree with everything you've said......our inability to make substantial progress on effective battery technologies means that green is just a very expensive tease. Nuclear via far safer elements like Thorium seems to be the way the wisest heads are moving.....if we compare the energy costs for consumers between France and Germany we see that writ large.....Nuclear is far cheaper and like green has zero climate emissions. That said, I have serious concerns with the competence of how our energy policy has been handled in this country.....delay, delay, delay and the placing of responsibilities into foreign hands. Edited by Stirlingsays (06 Aug 2019 7.40am)
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ASCPFC Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 06 Aug 19 1.43pm | |
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Originally posted by Badger11
Thank you. On another thread I posted about an alternate nuclear energy but couldn't remember it's name. The Americans had a design back in the 1950's but didn't go ahead because it didn't create plutonium. Apparently the Chinese are working on it now and expect to build one in the next 10 years. In theory it's far safer than the current ones and would mean that countries like North Korea and Iran could build them as they are only for energy creation. As for green energy it all depends on storage if the battery technology improves then it becomes sustainable. The current energy is no different storage wise. It is all electricity that is produced and then needs to be stored and directed to where it is needed. There is no difference between the storage of electricity generated from a coal-fired power station than there is from electricity produced by wind farms. Both are just electricity.
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Stirlingsays 06 Aug 19 2.46pm | |
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Originally posted by ASCPFC
Where I live we have regular flooding and a really deep fast flowing river that is not navigable. Therefore if we used water wheels/ turbines to generate electricity we could have loads for free. Would easily power our small town and wouldn't even cost much to do. I'm pretty sure if this was so that it would have happened a long time ago. To produce significant levels of power you need large bodies of water.....Look at the size and scope of the Hoover Dam which took five years to build.....it can only provide power for 1.5 million people, which amounts to the metropolitan population of Sheffield. Edited by Stirlingsays (06 Aug 2019 2.52pm)
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W12 07 Aug 19 11.04am | |
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The continued ignoring of relatively safe and clean nuclear power is a scandal. What that's left us is western powers pandering to authoritarian Islamism regimes including providing them arms to suppress their own people and others.
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Invalid user 2019 07 Aug 19 11.36am | |
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Originally posted by W12
The continued ignoring of relatively safe and clean nuclear power is a scandal. I do think it's kind of pitiful that our only nuclear plans nowadays tend to be bankrolled by foreign nations. Our priorities are indeed all wrong.
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