McCain just sealed my vote

[Stuck In The 80s]

There's plenty of mountains that aren't water sources and aren't seismically active.

 

[Grant O]

Your argument every fucking time is cost. Nuclear is not economical, its just a way to make a lot of power without pollution. Nothing about it is cheap, when are you going to admit that.

 

[Blossom xxx]

Why not? I thought distributed power based on solar and wind was "the way of the future"?

 

[karateprincess]

mccain ftw

 

[bravedonxiote]

Oh god

 

[melanie_baylon]

And like 5-6 hours worth of sun

 

[L Reborn]

I need the cost per KWH to go up so I can make monies installing solar panels on hippies homes.

 

[significant_importance]

Because technology never progresses. If it isn't 100% effective after it's initial introduction, it should be abandoned.

 

[jazzmahtazz]

The American populace didn't care enough about energy independence to educate themselves about nuclear energy and look past the Democratic propaganda.

 

[booboobooboo6768]

With intermittent renewables such as solar and wind, the output may be fed directly into an electricity grid. At penetrations below 20% of the grid demand, this does not severely change the economics; but beyond about 20% of the total demand, external storage will become important. If these sources are used for electricity to make hydrogen, then they can be utilized fully whenever they are available, opportunistically. Broadly speaking, it does not matter when they cut in or out, the hydrogen is simply stored and used as required. A community based pilot program using wind turbines and hydrogen generators is being developed undertaken from 2007 for five years in the remote community of Ramea, Newfoundland and Labrador.[19]

Nuclear advocates note that using nuclear power to manufacture hydrogen would help solve plant inefficiencies. Here the plant would be run continuously at full capacity, with perhaps all the output being supplied to the grid in peak periods, and any not needed to meet demand being used to make hydrogen at other times. This would mean far better efficiency for the nuclear power plants. High temperature (950-1,000?C) gas cooled nuclear reactors have the potential to separate hydrogen from water by thermochemical means using nuclear heat (i.e. without using electrolysis).

 

[Kaoru Kenshin]

you just killed any credibility youve ever had and i agree with some of your points

 

[boy1979]

That doesn't mean that it isn't.

 

[Demon God]

Threadstarter =

 

[Kunmui]

I know, thanks for noticing.

 

[Petey Pablo]

the diagram + name was sufficient.

 

[987654321]

So the Republican party, the party responsible for jeopardizing American oil futures, is redeemed in your eyes by the fact that they support THINKING about putting out nuclear plants in 2030?

How about all the proactive things that can be done right now, that are supported by Democrats, such as climate control policies & supporting alternatively-fueled cars?

 

[Kunmui]

people in the town of Chernobyl

 

[Ninja_Mak]

Fuck, TekDragon doesn't know what he's talking about? But he seemed so credible and intelligent up until this point.

 

[Kunmui]

So, you mean if they were able to magically appear and cost nothing to build?

Solar doesn't cost anything to run, if the sites just appeared they'd be way cheaper than nuclear.


If you take the cost of nuclear power, and also account for how much it costs to make the fucking plant, its not so cheap. Quit lying.

 

[depoysterfanx]

Obama supports Nuclear you racist.

Nuclear is insanely expensive, quit calling it cheap. Its not like its illegal to build a plant right now, nobody can afford it.