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8 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 10:16PM
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I can bench press almost 100 pounds! Im no weakling!
I survived Section 4 and all I got was this lousy sig
Off-topic and going downhill from there
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8 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 11:27PM
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Wind generators require a lot of space and create noise pollution while dams can't be built everywhere. But solar panels (though still not very efficient) and reactors, sure.
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8 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 3:44AM
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Do you have an alternative that is plentiful, clean, proven, cost-effective, and cheap to the consumer?
Sorry, doesn't provide the energy that coal does, and it's not as cheap.
I actually LOL'ed when I saw the pic of the windmill.
Been drinking kool-aid lately?
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8 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 3:46AM
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Don't forget solar, tides, thermic and biomass. And the value of reducing your energy consumption.
I said cheap and plentiful people.
I didn't ask for a list of alternate energy sources.
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8 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 3:48AM
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Too many humans are afraid of reactor meltdowns that they even fear nuclear fusion reactors.
Can you blame them after what happened at 3 Mile Island, and more recently in Japan?
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8 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 6:22AM
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Can you blame them after what happened at 3 Mile Island
I'd be fascinated to hear what you think happened at Three Mile Island that should make people fearful.
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8 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 8:56AM
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EDIT: Grrr... The video I wanted to embed apparently has been set up to not allow it. That's freaking stupid. Anyway... youtu.be/-5bVbfWuq-Q
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8 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 9:24AM
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Don't forget solar, tides, thermic and biomass. And the value of reducing your energy consumption.
I said cheap and plentiful people.
I didn't ask for a list of alternate energy sources.
The sun and wind are plentyful and are becoming cheaper. They are less risky for health and the environment. When talking cost we should also factor in those costs too. Coal is terrible for health and the environment.
That drought in the center of the US that is raising food prices? Thank you coal.
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8 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 10:06AM
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Wind power is terrible. It takes a state's worth of turbines to power a city and making your energy supply dependent upon mother nature is  . Doubt it? That drought? Yeah, imagine if we ran wholly on ethanol. Well, we'd have no gas, would we? So it's stupid to see wind as some sort of permanent solution. It's fine for supplying small amounts of power in addition to something more reilable but that's it. That's it's entire future. Oh, and it's also a pollutant. Hideous to look at and they may interfere with migratory birds as well. Next. Hydroelectric is also a terrible idea. Again, drought. Lower water levels means less you can use. Aside from that we have that whole 'can cause entire species of fish to go extinct' issue. So yeah, real environmentally friendly. The sun's the best bet but it's not something that can be used everywhere and it is still dependent upon nature to function. I also happen to like that blue petroleum that they're working on. Recycles industrial waste and creates oil. That's pretty good, IMO.
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8 months ago ::
Oct 05, 2012 - 10:22AM
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Too many humans are afraid of reactor meltdowns that they even fear nuclear fusion reactors.
Can you blame them after what happened at 3 Mile Island, and more recently in Japan?
"The average radiation dose to people living within ten miles of the plant was eight millirem, and no more than 100 millirem to any single individual. Eight millirem is about equal to a chest X-ray, and 100 millirem is about a third of the average background level of radiation received by US residents in a year."
There have been three major nuclear power incidents that I can think of. One was the failure of a poorly made Soviet reactor, one was Three Mile Island, and it's too early to say much about the damage caused by Fukushima Daichi. How many nuclear fission reactors have been in operation?
So long as the reactor is handled properly, designed to handle any probable disaster (an earthquake and tsunami on the scale of Tōhoku was not probable, but future designs are likely to take them into account,) and the waste is handled properly, fission poses far fewer health risks than coal, is still cheap on the mass scale of power production, and there's enough fuel on the planet to provide fuel for a certain form of reactor for about five billion years. Sound plentiful to you? And fission is just a stopgap.
Of course, I'm pretty biased, so I may not be the best source.
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