you are not listening nor understanding, one cannot conduct a discussion with some one that only listens to half an argument

The options are
in broad terms


free for all ..... generate what ever as soon as possible

thoughtful generation ..... using whatever clean sources available


play with wind power that will leave us with shortfalls
every few days

or go for a planned Nuclear option

not today but soon


If you want to work in the dark & dig coal now available but man Hazardous or maybe the oil Gas option relling on some third world letting us have our supply


Oil is an rare resource not to be burnt usful for so many things other than destroying it for fuel

I am a little puzzeld asa to you objections David

Densnaps I don't intend to rehash all of the points I have already made over and over again in the Greenies thread

If you want to know my considered opinion take a look here

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=12462

Ps

we at my powerstation picked up the Chernoble event long before the russkies admitted to it

the control and admin is top hole
If you knew what to read about 3 mile island and the chernoble event

as a rational thinking person apart from whatttttttttttt
the controls now hopefully would prevent the happening again

Thats too emotive thought
what we are looking for is the CLEAN way to make energy

35 years in the nuke trade

makes me think if only the rubbish ill in formed press

got the facts right

all you Green folks might under stand you might have the "facts slightly skewed"

Den, corrosion can be eliminated by thermal spraying on a shotblasted clean surface with Zinc. This is usually called 'metallisation' and will last for the life of the product. It is different from galvanizing but the principle is the same as the zinc feeds the steel with electrons and stops it from corroding. The zinc is painted over with several coats of paint too. We bolt large blocks of zinc onto pipelines and other stuff under the sea as well to feed them with electrons. This is called. 'Sacrificial corrosion' If done properly those things could stand in the sea long after they are useful.

I have worked providing stuff for the nuclear industry too in the past. If you saw any large blue pressure vessels filled with Nitrogen where you worked for flooding the reactor. Those babies are mine.

Trident ? Most of that was done here too and shipped to Barrow in Furness for assembly.

I would rather we used re-newables myself where appropriate and as little nuclear as possible, or even better none at all even though I have had some involvement with it in the past.

I have loads of pictures of our Engineering feats in oil, gas, nuclear etc etc if my old scanner will work.

Didactylos even if the Nuclear industry was now perfect, which it never will be as we are involved in the process, what do you suggest we do with the 35 tonnes of spent fuel that each reactor generates every year that will be a radiation hazard for countless generations to come - a heck of a lot longer than when Mankind packed in the hunter gathering.

What do you suppose we should say in the letter to the people of 100,000 AD

Sorry about the mess but this Al Gore chap convinced us we really needed to do this