Thread: 4 dollar gas

Originally Posted by Freedom for All

Per plant.

Okay, two drums.

Please, fit all the fly ash from a coal plant into a bag and weigh it, okay?

riiiiiiiiiiight, per plant which equals 2,000 metric tonnes nationwide a year. and that would only double or triple if we went all nuclear.

and why do you keep bringing up coal? who said coal was the alternative?

Originally Posted by Freedom for All

Per plant.

Okay, two drums.

Please, fit all the fly ash from a coal plant into a bag and weigh it, okay?

also, i can't find anything saying solar plants have high environmental impacts. yes the panels have toxic chemicals in them, but if the panels were breaking at such a high level to poison landfills, the solar plant intself wouldn't be very functional.

my advice would be to not have inspector clouseau handle or adjust the panels.

and i found data that said wind turbines kill thousands of birds a year, but thats small compared to the 150 million killed each year by cars and plate glass.

Originally Posted by nickcuse

riiiiiiiiiiight, per plant which equals 2,000 metric tonnes nationwide a year. and that would only double or triple if we went all nuclear.

and why do you keep bringing up coal? who said coal was the alternative?

Right.

Oh, gotcha. Sum total.

2000 tons. Or a couple of box cars full.

See? Not much at all.

my advice would be to not have inspector clouseau handle or adjust the panels.

Funny, the French supply most of their electricity from nuclear. Without any problems at all.

and i found data that said wind turbines kill thousands of birds a year, but thats small compared to the 150 million killed each year by cars and plate glass.

And really huge compared to the zero killed by nuke plants.

Originally Posted by Freedom for All

Right.

Oh, gotcha. Sum total.

2000 tons. Or a couple of box cars full.

See? Not much at all.

whatever. then i guess you won't mind if the shipping routes go by your house.

oh and by the way, since we don't have a storage facility as of yet, theres roughly 65,000 tonnes of waste all over the country. so once yucca mountain or wherever does open, looks like we'll have more than a couple of box cars worth to get rid of all at once.

Originally Posted by Freedom for All

Right.

Oh, gotcha. Sum total.

2000 tons. Or a couple of box cars full.

See? Not much at all.



Funny, the French supply most of their electricity from nuclear. Without any problems at all.



And really huge compared to the zero killed by nuke plants.

well right, because you can't have the clumsy french breaking solar panels all over the place.

Originally Posted by Freedom for All

Funny, the French supply most of their electricity from nuclear. Without any problems at all.

There ya go, complementing the French again. They got a pretty good health care system too, rated much better than ours. Must be a pretty smart bunch over there.

Originally Posted by Freedom for All

And really huge compared to the zero killed by nuke plants.

i'm sure a nuclear plant has somehow killed a bird or two.

and like i said, figure out a way to dispose of the waste and i don't have a problem. in the mean time, keep going with solar and wind.

Originally Posted by Pragmatist

There ya go, complementing the French again. They got a pretty good health care system too, rated much better than ours. Must be a pretty smart bunch over there.

plus, considering france is roughly a 5th the size of the u.s. in population, and considering about a 5th of our electricity comes from nuclear power, i'd say we're done. we matched the french.

except not really since france reprocesses most of its waste, whereas we don't do that at all in this country.

Originally Posted by nickcuse

whatever. then i guess you won't mind if the shipping routes go by your house.

oh and by the way, since we don't have a storage facility as of yet, theres roughly 65,000 tonnes of waste all over the country. so once yucca mountain or wherever does open, looks like we'll have more than a couple of box cars worth to get rid of all at once.

So your argument goes like this:

The lefties have refused absolutely any and all attempts by any responsible party to construct a proper storage facility for nuclear waste.

Then they proclaim that we can't build new nuclear power plants because we don't have any place to keep the waste, and that we should shut down all current nuclear power plants because they're holding extensive amounts of waste on site, because there's no place in this country to put the waste.

That's called circular reasoning, something lefties are prone to.

Here's another thing, there's nothing wrong with using Yucca Mountain for waste storage. All the arguments against that site are as relevant to the hazards of nuclear waste as fools wondering if Monica Lewinski should be checked for cervical cancer because she smoked a cigar.

Originally Posted by Pragmatist

There ya go, complementing the French again. They got a pretty good health care system too, rated much better than ours. Must be a pretty smart bunch over there.

No, they have socialism, that means they're diseased. Hell, they can't even build an aircraft carrier with a nuclear power plant.

But they provide most of their electrical needs with fission, and one never hears any damn stupid liberals complaining about them.