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13 more reasons the universe is weird | by Arachnid | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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Here is my take on it | by shminux | 2005-03-23 20:28:16 |
| I agree mostly |
by quickbeam |
2005-03-27 17:19:22 |
But on the cold fusion thing, I've read that ball lightning, a rare weather related phenomenon, gives off particles/radiation that is suggestive of fusion, and gives off more energy than it ought to contain to start with. However the number of times that a spark of the correct energy actually induces enough magnetism to cause it's own collapse into a helical coil of plasma (read ball lightning), more than nullifies the energy output.
I always wondered about trying to run any kind of fusion starting underwater. It seems to me that gas is closer plasma than liquid is. So I think that I would start with heavy water steam, not heavy water.
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It seems to me that there is plenty of power from fission, geothermal, and tidal effects to go looking for more before these are exploited...
We can safely generate from any one of these alone enough power to supply the whole world for the foreseeable future.
I saw on the news last week that there was another fuel refinery fire killing over a dozen people.
If it had been a (modern) fission plant, instead of the fire spreading in seconds or minutes over the whole plant. It would have taken hours perhaps days for anything to get from "anomaly" to "problem" and, days more and many people's colluded mistakes later before it could begin to reach the "out of control" stage.
I'm sure I would rather live by a (modern) fission reactor or uranium mine than a strip mine, a coal or oil power plant.
(I'm not sure about a reprocessing plant vs. an oil refinery, having not been able to find statistics on reprocessing plants but I'm pretty sure that I'd vote for the Uranium reprocessing plant.)
(Since there not being a nuclear waste disposal facility yet, to have statistics on, I won’t pretend to have an informed opinion yet, but I believe that with proper administration of the nuclear power industry by the government or with proper self regulation all the problems could be ironed out within my lifetime. And then I could say that I’d rather live by such a disposal site than by a coal ash dump site.)
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I mean no disrespect to the hundreds who have given their lives in the perfection of fission technology, or the thousands in the perfection of fossil fuel combustion technology, or the millions of coal miners who suffer from black lung disease, even today. Or the millions more coal miners who will die needlessly in the future until government policies are changed. |
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