[mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] solar power for all our gadgets

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
> David Brodbeck wrote:
>
>>> So, the anti-nuclear lobby caused our contribution to global warming.
>>>  I'm
>>> still waiting for them to admit it and change their stance...
>>>
>> I'm all for it as soon as we figure out where to put the waste, and commit
>> to cleaning up all the previous messes from when we thought we could just
>> dump it in any random hole in the ground.  Until we have a realistic waste
>> disposal solution, though, it's hard for me to support making more of the
>> stuff.
>
> Which incidentally we have an answer for - but start talking "fast breeder"
> and the anti-nuke lobby go into a frenzy ! A lot of what we currently call
> "waste" can actually be fed into a different type of reactor, used again,
> and the result is a smaller volume of waste with a much shorter half-life (I
> don't know the figures, but the stuff doesn't have to be locked away for
> thousands of years). But once you start talking about reactors that can make
> their own plutonium fuel, for some reason people get even more tetchy than
> they are about common uranium fission reactors.
>
> I've heard that over in the UK we have enough processed waste in storage now
> to run something like one of these reactors for it's lifetime, and several
> times that waiting for re-processing. I would think several of those
> reactors would make a big dent in our CO2 emissions.
>
> What's needed is some cool rational debate, but I think that is about as
> likely as cool rational debate about 'climate change' :-(
>
> Oh yes, I don't have any connection with the nuclear industry - but I do
> have the Sellafield plant just up the coast from me, and a shipyard just
> down the coast that build (amongst other things) nuclear powered subs.
> Contrary to a joke I got at university, we still need headlights on the
> cars, the hedges don't glow at night :-)

Or do they? Perhaps you only think that because you are glowing too!