U.S. may speed approval of nuclear plants

[Skanky Burns]

Better than pollution from coal or oil plants.

[Provost Harrison]

You may have enough in a Great Scientist to finish it off Steohen Hawking might do it, but alas, he is ours

[Odin]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Nuclear energy

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
You may have enough in a Great Scientist to finish it off Steohen Hawking might do it, but alas, he is ours

That's okay, we got Norman Borlaug .

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Yay, and by yay I mean, "About damn time."

QFT

[SlowwHand]

Texas has in fact now overtaken California in wind energy. Excellent step.
This is another energy source we should be harnessing.

[snoopy369]

Consider wind power per capita... if I'm reading that right, for example New Mexico has enough to run about 100,000 average homes, which at a population around 2 million and probably 5 people per house (large families in NM), then about 1 in 4 households in NM is supported by wind power

[Dis]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
Joy, and by joy I mean, "Crap."

hey now, you don't live 60 miles from the proposed nuclear waste site.

[Dis]

still not that much (significant in a low population state though)

doesn't wind power kill millions of birds?

[SlowwHand]

How? Flying into the blades?

[Dis]

yes

how else would it kill them?

I hear the newer ones kill less birds.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Dis


hey now, you don't live 60 miles from the proposed nuclear waste site.

But I do live near a potential transportation route: Intersate-80 and the Union Pacific rail corridor along it. Plus, you and I are in the same watertable as Yucca Mountain, as well as the same tectonically active region. The site has been explained again and again to be dangerous to all involved. Hell, just moving the stuff poses very high risk. The nuclear industry needs to stop being a bunch of pussies and shell out the money to store it where they make it or deal with it themselves (the Europeans have figured this out already) instead of relying on government handouts and making them do their dirty work, costing taxpayers God knows how much.

[SlowwHand]

What about regular old windmills? I guess it's a good thing they've been around so along, or we'd be virtually inundated with birds. Cull the bird herd!

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Gatekeeper
Fusion power, baby, fusion power.

&

still 20 years away

Nope...it's closer to 15 year now.

doesn't wind power kill millions of birds?

No biggie. It's a Darwinian type of thing for them. Those birds that are stupid enough to fly through the blades won't reproduce. Smart birds that fly around wind turbines will be the surviving species. This process makes birds smarter.

[Zkribbler]

By the way, didn't the U.S. government just get his with something like $1/4 billion judgment for failing to haul nuclear wastes away from some power plants??