Nuclear energy, thoughts

[Bunkermagnet]

I dont think we have any choice but to embrace all forms of electricity production. However which ever selctions are chosen, we are going to be strggling to have enough in a very short space of time since they take years to plan, pass and build let alone commision and bring onstream.
The governements fixation with electrics cars and all things electric powered wont help.

As far as renewables go, wind farms seem inefficient and ugly (seeing as visibility effects are taken into local consideration) and solar panels.........who decided that turning over healthy food produciong farm fields into solar farms is a good way forward? I didnt realise we had a surplus of food production and didnt need to import any or the important ingrediants to feed ourselves, or is that just a far to simplistic approach and arent seeing the huge financial gains those farms are making over growing the more important food stuffs we need to survive?

 

[Mr Hip]

This is just my opinion - this is another issue where the real problem is too many people. Sooner or later something, climate change, war, pestilence etc etc, is going to cull the human race. Population collapse elsewhere in the animal kingdom is well understood but "we" think we are exempt. Wrong! Just been reading that the PREDICT team have found a previously unknown virus in a bat species in Myanmar that could cross over into humans. Very scary.😱
After population collapse and on the plus side though, could probably get a game at any time without being held up. 😷

 

[CliveW]

My granny used to say "If they put up anymore windmills there'll be nae wind left."

 

[Jimaroid]

is there any reason why nuclear waste could not put up in space, assuming it could be done with safety or is it a lot bigger than I imagine ?

It’s a bigger problem because getting things into space isn’t as straightforward as it often seems. It goes wrong a lot.

There are thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste material to dispose of every year, the largest rockets can carry about 50 tonnes and 1 in 20 rockets fail spectacularly. So does anyone fancy a 1 in 20 chance of exploding 50 tonnes of plutonium in the atmosphere?

Burying it in the ground feels much more comfortable

Safety will get better but then we get to the problem of fuelling the rockets. Which goes back to digging it out of the ground. And around the merry dance goes.

 

[Tashyboy]

Agreed. Plus the (literally) catastrophic consequences of an incident.

As for fusion, it's been 20 years away since I was at school, and I'll be dead soon enough...

Just read on Sky news that the French are building a fusion reactor and expect it to be up and running in 7 years 😳

 

[SaintHacker]

This is just my opinion - this is another issue where the real problem is too many people. Sooner or later something, climate change, war, pestilence etc etc, is going to cull the human race. Population collapse elsewhere in the animal kingdom is well understood but "we" think we are exempt. Wrong! Just been reading that the PREDICT team have found a previously unknown virus in a bat species in Myanmar that could cross over into humans. Very scary.😱
After population collapse and on the plus side though, could probably get a game at any time without being held up. 😷

Yep. I recently read a book called The Hot Zone, its a hypothetical look at what would happen if Ebola ever made it out of Africa. Basically what the author says it that two thirds of the human population could be infected before it was even known it had gone viral. Scary stuff indeed, and with the way humans now travel and the vast distances we can cover in such a short time more a case of when it happens and not if

 

[SaintHacker]

Just read on Sky news that the French are building a fusion reactor and expect it to be up and running in 7 years 😳

Double that by the time they've had a few strikes and extended lunch breaks...