What are your thoughts on nuclear power as a base load power supply? Any better alternatives? Check-out: http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2007/12/nuclear_qa
Former ‘No Nukes’ Protester: Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Power
By John Borland 12.07.07 | 12:00 AM
Gwyneth Cravens argues for the environmental benefits of nuclear energy in her new book, Power to Save the World: The [...]
An interesting article on how just Nuclear power cant be the solution to global warming. Eventhough the assumptions of the report are yet to be analyzed, the facts are pretty interesting. The last few lines made absolute sense to me!!!!
“By promoting the commercial production and use of plutonium, the Bush administration is facilitating the spread [...]
While there is significant talk to put brakes on the Fossil fuel industry and the associated mining industry, the Gov just seems to be pressing hard on the accelerator….Carrying forward on the Artic-ice discussion…I guess we need a social-political-technical revolution..!!!! Any fancy names for the revolution people???
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22438686-5005080,00.html
Whom are you voting for ???? Here, they promise a bright future…!!!!!
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22502698-29277,00.html
From ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live:
In his Quarterly Essay Ian Lowe, one of Australia’s leading commentators on science and the environment, writes: “Promoting nuclear power as the solution to climate change is like advocating smoking as a cure for obesity. That is, taking up the nuclear option will make it much more difficult to [...]
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A half baked article I wrote about Nuclear Fusion a while ago. Some aspects of it are vague for the simple reason that I am not a Nuclear physicist. Please feel free to jump in and point out any errors you spot or indeed to expand on anything I have glossed over.
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I’ll start with a [...]