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Article #83Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste
From: none Quarks like a duck
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 00:00
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greige@bigpond.com (Greig Ebeling) wrote: >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 Why do you ask stupid questions?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ecc0,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ecc0,public X-Google-Thread: 107e5d,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid107e5d,public X-Google-Thread: 10c480,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c480,public X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df0c,public X-Google-Thread: 102359,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid102359,public X-Google-Thread: fb19c,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb19c,public From: none (Quarks like a duck) Subject: Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste Date: 2000/06/07 Message-ID: <8hlqc7$243$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> X-Deja-AN: 632204737 References: <8f2n6g$61p$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> <39162523@news.rivernet.com.au> <957754941.595999@server.tarms.com> <shf6v3i05uh22@corp.supernews.com> <39186F24.9D1EBB6A@tcac.net> <957915161.274368@server.tarms.com> <8fa92n$f2i$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net> <8F30661E4bnesheimonlineno@148.122.208.74> <_RcS4.38598$Xk2.139664@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> <8F3097C58bnesheimonlineno@148.122.208.74> <OQdS4.38606$Xk2.139672@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> <958003425.891133@server.tarms.com> <8fcukc$ <391C48E0.27163060@boeing.com> <N4mT4.40348$Xk2.143903@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> <hlVX4.6296$Ym2.167177@typhoon2.ba-dsg.net> <8h0paj$dqu$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net> <39345a3a.58079449@news.bigpond.com> <8h3kjd$h2l$1@slb6.atl.mindspring.net> <_5qZ4.5999$N4.227441@ozemail.com.au> <3936406C.2C10949E@compuserve.com> <DvyZ4.105047$R4.612391@news1.rdc1.nj.home.com> <MR5_4.7628$N4.283206@ozemail.com.au> <pom_4.6336$F9.210198@news1.gvcl1.bc.home.com> <0oE_4.8818$N4.323789@ozemail.com.au> <393e28d7.50913920@news.bigpond.com> X-Server-Date: 7 Jun 2000 15:39:51 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Reply-To: your mom Newsgroups: alt.engineering.nuclear,aus.environment.misc,aus.politics,sci.energy,sci.engr.mining,sci.environment.waste