chipncricket
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O.o I've just laughed myself nearly into a coma.
One small opinion from someone who lives without being tied up to the electrical grid. Yes, one of those much maligned Greenies.
Nuclear energy is NOT the way to go. Sorry, it just isn't. Not from a safety standpoint, as far as safety goes it does have a pretty good record. I can't tell you the statistics anymore but safety isn't really the issue here. What on earth are we going to do with the waste?! Does anybody know the amount of nuclear waste a single reactor produces? I do. Its 20 TONS a year and only a small amount of it is the spent fuel rods.The majority is things as simple as the paper booties that the maintenance crew wears in the building. Burying the stuff isn't smart. Encasing it in concrete class and leaving it as statues around the world isn't smart. Dumping it in the ocean is REALLY dumb and several countries have done that for years. Radiation screws things up for thousands of years. Adding more to what we already have really is a recipe for disaster.
There is no such thing as Clean Coal Technology, the government's plan is to pump the CO2 into the ocean. The ocean DOES convert CO2 into oxygen at a steady predictable rate, however it will not handle much more than it already takes care of. Oceanic dead spots do exist, they are places where the CO2 concentration is too high for anything to live. So the government wants to do that to the whole ocean? Nice. Really nice.
I'm not a fan of natural gas either. Yes, its cleaner than coal, but its a limited natural resource meaning it will run out, just like oil. It also produces some nasty crap when its burned. Not to mention harvesting it leaves a lot to be desired... it forever damages the ecology of where the natural gas is captured.
There are Greenies out there who are too radical even for my taste. However natural resources are the way to go. Solar, wind and small scale hydro energy are the way to go, we just have to implement technology we already have. Something else that's an interesting fact, did you you know that hydrogen gas is a direct replacement for natural gas? You can run a car, with some modification that is, on hydrogen gas. Same as your natural gas stove and furnace.
I live off grid. I do not pay for electricity. Yet when you walk into my home and turn on a light switch you get light. Turn on the hot water you get hot water, turn on the coffee pot and the toaster and you get coffee and toast. You can't tell the difference from a house that pays for electricity. I produce my own.
Whatever the case may be people don't have to radically change how they live... that is why alternative energy is not as mainstream as it should be. The people that most often try to get the word out are too radical for "normal" (there are no such thing as normal people, its a setting on the washing machine) people to tolerate or think about doing. If your life stayed the same but you didn't have an electricity bill and you filled your car up with the garden hose would that be to "radical" for everyone?
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