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Comment on The Business of Climate Change Conference 2009 by lmtlsss

lmtlsss — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:55:46 +0000

Scientists=Used car Salesmen.

Comment on The Business of Climate Change Conference 2009 by vonneebee

vonneebee — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:33:41 +0000

and you’ll never see any of this on TV. nobody wants the “real reality” on tv.

Comment on The Business of Climate Change Conference 2009 by ductonius

ductonius — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:16:13 +0000

The world will, by necessity, embrace nuclear power. The technology is well understood and the fuel is – for all intents and purposes – unlimited. The difficulties seen with nuclear power are for the most part a result of ignorance and irrational fear.

The global economy can function without the presence of cheap oil, it cannot, however, function with the presence of thoughtlessness.

Comment on The Business of Climate Change Conference 2009 by relocalizenow

relocalizenow — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:28:02 +0000

@ductonius Check your facts ductonious. There is a very limited supply of uranium!

Comment on The Business of Climate Change Conference 2009 by ductonius

ductonius — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:49:30 +0000

Fuel reprocessing can extend uranium reserves up to 50 times. Breeder reactors can extend this number many times over and the use of thorium fuel further extends that number three to four times.

The oceans contain 4.6billion tonnes of dissolved uranium. Because fuel costs are so small for nuclear power, even if the extraction costs were 10 times that of mined uranium it would not make nuclear power unfeasible.

There is no shortage of nuclear fuel, just a shortage of political will to use it.

Comment on The Business of Climate Change Conference 2009 by aylesmerep

aylesmerep — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:48:52 +0000

Replacing oil and coal with nuclear would mean a vast number of new nuclear stations world wide in every country, stable or not. Breeders would make proliferation of fissionables much more of a problem, multiply terrorist targets etc

Comment on The Business of Climate Change Conference 2009 by ductonius

ductonius — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:38:16 +0000

Your arguments are all strawmen.

There is nothing that says we need to encourage or allow the use of nuclear technology in unstable countries, which tend to not be industrialized and thus have low CO2 outputs and oil usage anyway.

Similarly, there’s no reason any county not already industrialized and stable would need breeder reactors.

Nuclear terrorism concerns are nothing but a mix of alarmism and ignorance.

Comment on The Business of Climate Change Conference 2009 by Jibberyerkibber

Jibberyerkibber — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:06:53 +0000

@ductonius
Geo-thermal energy is the future of this planet. Cheap. Inexhaustible supply.

Comment on The Business of Climate Change Conference 2009 by ductonius

ductonius — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:20:25 +0000

Geothermal is a good supplement and should be used where possible, but the main limitation is it is not feasible in most places. Geothermal requires abundant underground heat close to the surface and most places where people live do not have enough. Drilling deeper to find hotter rock increases costs massively. The energy density must also be high enough.

Nuclear power works anywhere there is a source of cooling water and people tend to live near lakes, rivers, seas and oceans anyway.

Comment on The Business of Climate Change Conference 2009 by phrozeninSK

phrozeninSK — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:49:36 +0000

what about the margins on the products we buy. Price doesnt have to go up if greed goes down.