Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste

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From: Greig Ebeling
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 00:00

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On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:36:44 +1000, "ant" <dont-look@evil.spam> wrote:


>my local council is about to switch on its new greenwaste fed digestor
>power plant, it does not burn the greenwaste directly, it digests it and
>produces methane which is burnt in gas turbines, the solid leftover makes
>exelent fertiliser and soil improver. it is being used as a model for
>larger plants in other areas, we only have a population of 200,000 to draw
>on. so there is an example of an renewabel energy system that operates
>24/7, is capable of being scaled to meet local needs, is cheap and turns a
>money loseing service(domestic greenwaste disposal) into a profit makeing
>enterprise. and all this was done without signifigant levels of government
>money, it was paid for through commercial loans and private sector
>investment. the technology can also be applied to sewerage, and in the
>process reduces the amount of polution from sewerage plants to near zero.

There is nothing wrong with these projects, but you need to put their
potential size into perspective.  Biomass, solar and wind, all put
together, amounts to a trickle of power next to the demand.  They
simply cannot scale to a significant level.

>intergrated soultions is what i am saying, why you would chose to
>deliberatly chose a worst case scenario and then go on to say that proves
>that the technology will not work anywhere is strange.

Why do anti-nukes keep mentioning Chernobyl?


...Greig

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From: greige@bigpond.com (Greig Ebeling)
Subject: Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste
Date: 2000/06/07
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