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"ant" <dont-look@evil.spam> wrote in message
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> Tim O'Flaherty wrote in message ...
> >Greig Ebeling wrote in message <3940d93f.51465324@news.bigpond.com>...
> >>On Thu, 8 Jun 2000 22:15:21 -0400, "Tim O'Flaherty"
> >><pinwheels@attcanada.net> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>Bulk energy storage is indeed a problem, since the market has been
> >>begging for a solution for decades, with no real advances being made
> >>on lead-acid batteries.  Fuel cells and vanadium redox batteries offer
> >>a solution for transport issues, but do not offer the grand solution
> >>required to improve the viability of renewable energy.

> if humans could manage to generate electricity fron nuclear fission, i
cant
> see any technical reason why redox in its many forms can not be scaled to
> fit. funny, the proponent of nuclear energy saying that there are to many
> technical challenges to the use of redox and Renewables but at the same
> time insisting that the problems associated with the long term storage or
> disposal of nuclear waste have been solved.
>

ant, there's nothing at all wrong with saying "I believe energy system x has
technical problems greater than those of energy system y."  Greig is an
engineer (I think), and is probably accustomed to judging competing design
alternatives on the basis of their technical features and shortcomings.  If
he's anything like me, he's not ideologically committed to nuclear power; he
simply sees it as our best technical solution for some pretty serious
problems.  He has also produced figures and references to back up many of
his arguments.

I have another question for the "clean energy" proponents.  Assume for the
sake of argument that a nuclear energy technology is developed that
a) Cannot melt down;
b) Produces a vastly reduced amount of unusable waste;
c) Operates passively to shut down the reaction if anything goes wrong;
d) Produces inexpensive 24/7 baseload.
e) Is scalable (can be very large or quite small)

[And no, I am not going to spring a trap here by claiming that such a
reactor exists.]

My question is this:  can you see yourself accepting this technology for our
electrical needs?  If not, why not?  What would it take for you to accept
nuclear power?