How can the US be labeled a polluter if we don't make anything anymore?

[Tripledoc]

Originally posted by Whoha


we have more total reactors when you factor in all the ships we have though

However they don't add to the civilian consumption.

France has 56 working nuclear plants, generating 76% of her electricity.
It is also the second least polluting industrialized nation after Switzerland, according to the OECD.

I think there is definately a very important correlation between low CO2 emissions and high dependence on Nuclear Power.

[Hagbart]

Nuclear power is very green (as long as the nuclear plant doesn't meltdown).

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Tripledoc
I think there is definately a very important correlation between low CO2 emissions and high dependence on Nuclear Power.

Indeed, and that's why I find it very funny that German Greens managed to shut down nuclear plants in Germany to replace them with gas or coal guzzlers

[Urban Ranger]

The problem with nuclear reactors is the waste. That stuff is going to be hot for a very long time.

[CharlesBHoff]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
The problem with nuclear reactors is the waste. That stuff is going to be hot for a very long time.

Depenceing on the nautal of the fuel the half life can be from 250,000 years to 4 billion years year. It I have 100 ton of U-238, 4 billion year from now I will have 50 tons of U-238.

[Dis]

edit: I was wrong. That has never happened before

I did not think the halflife was that long. But it is (700 billion years for U-235- the element used primarily (over 99% pure I believe) in navy nuclear reactors). Why then are they only designing the nuke waste dump in Nevada to only last 10,000 years?

perhaps we should not be using nuclear power- or at least fission. Excpet for military purposes.

There has to be a better way.

[Lancer]

Regulating the auto indusrty would be a good thing then. Get the SUVs off the road and everyone into smaller cars, for starters. If regulations were put in place now, people would certainly nurse their gas guzzlers but in maybe 15 or 20 years most would be gone.

I have a Ford Windstar, but I bought it mostly to protect the wife in any accident w/ an SUV or truck. We really don't need anything that big... If everyone downsized it would be alot safer to drive a small car.

We need to get the rail system fixed too, and regulate away the 18 wheeler. That would cut polution.

[Sava]

Must be industry out there somewhere... Or is it consumption? Should we stop heating our houses? Don't europeans heat their houses? Drive cars?

energy production and consumption

Regulating the auto indusrty would be a good thing then. Get the SUVs off the road and everyone into smaller cars, for starters. If regulations were put in place now, people would certainly nurse their gas guzzlers but in maybe 15 or 20 years most would be gone.

We need to get the rail system fixed too, and regulate away the 18 wheeler. That would cut polution.

omg, who are you and what have you done with lancer?!?!?!

, btw

[Defiant]

You know what, 10-20 more years down the road we all could be riding bicyles and wearing little funny hats and black pajamas and call each other comrade, this is a ridiculous agrument for a free society.

[Spiffor]

Of course, the comparative usefulness of a SUV vis-a-vis an ordinary car is exactly the same as the comparative usefulness of a car vis-a-vis a bycicle

Europe sure is a horrible un-free society.

[Defiant]

I can't even fit in one of your Eurocars, they are made for little people and NO you are not as free as America, your socialistic ideals are one step away from communism. I want my 4x4 Dodge Ram, I don't give a rip what you think I should drive, and I don't give a rip what you want to drive.

[Spiffor]

YAY! WE ARE FREE TO GUZZLE GAS AND DESTROY THIS PLANET TO OUR HEART'S CONTENT! WHO ARE YOU COMMIES TO DARE OPPOSE THIS LIBERTY?

[Dis]

did some of you think that maybe you're too big?

people should not be so fat.

Eurocars are not that hard to get into. Maybe you should take a trip over there.

The only reason I have a pickup is for the 4 X 4 capability, as some hikes I go on can only be reached by a high clearance vehicle and sometimes I need the 4 X 4. But if they could make a hybrid vehicle with high clearance adn 4 X 4 capability, I'd buy it in an instant.

You think I want to drive my gas guzzlign Dodge Ram? Not with gas prices at $2 a gallon.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Defiant
I can't even fit in one of your Eurocars, they are made for little people and NO you are not as free as America, your socialistic ideals are one step away from communism. I want my 4x4 Dodge Ram, I don't give a rip what you think I should drive, and I don't give a rip what you want to drive.

OMFG STUPID COMMIE LAWS INFRINGE ON MY FREEDOM TO MURDER OMFG STUPID COMMIES!

[Nubclear]

DFEATH O COMMIES!!11!#$!!11

BUSH$4EVA!!!11