Archive for April, 2010

If so, what do you consider the waste by-product that everyone seems to think belongs to Nevada as?

The energy is clean, definitely. Almost every large city in Europe has its own reactor producing power, and they haven’t had any problem.

The problems in the US and Russia were caused by human error, or greed on the part of the reactor owners.

The waste problem in the US has been created by legislation based on ignorance. The fuel rods can be recycled instead of buried.

As fuel rods are used, bi products are created and build up in the rods until the rod can no longer sustain a reaction.

The spent rods can be shipped to South Carolina where there are facilities that can remove the bi products from the rods so they can be recycled. The cleaned rods can be returned to the reactor and continue being used, instead of throwing them away and producing new fuel rods.

Legislation by several states prohibit shipping fuel rods through those states. So instead of cleaning the fuel rods and reusing them, we are shipping them to Nevada and burying them.

P.S. the rods are actually pellets stacked on top of each other so they look like a rod.

I’m trying to argue that this author (who uses this analogy) is using fallacious reasoning. What are some obvious differences?

The author’s writes the following:
"Just as 20th-century socialists savaged capitalism for all the world’s ills and offered worthless “five-year plans” as a replacement, so today’s environmentalists savage industrial energy and offer us “green energy plans” that they assure us will work–once we give them the power to forbid everything else that has already been proven to work."

Any ideas on disproving this?

First, any such assertion is pretty silly. Our government doesn’t tell us where to live, what we must grow on our farm, and send us to the Gulag if we disagree with them. However:

- We don’t have plans — more like objectives.
- We don’t force actions (generally) we reward success.
- I haven’t seen anyone "assure us" that any plan will work.

Quite clearly, dumping old oil into the creek out back does get rid of it. For us. If it’s a problem for someone down stream, why should we care?

That kind of attitude is quite appropriate for the government to ban. It’s also appropriate to regulate air quality. Look up into your sky, and compare it with this:

http://images.google.com/images?q=china%20pollution

Im fresh out of high school and am not sure what education i should be seeking next. I have heard that renewable energy is a fast growing field and would like to know what education a good job in that field would require. By a good job i mean anything from installing solar panels or repairing wind turbines. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Look into electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering. I would say the best thing that anyone could tell you is to stay versatile. Things are changing so fast in the green industry that by the time you learn one thing very well, it has become obsolete, or close to it.

If you are a self help type of person and are really interested in installing or consulting, check out a program ‘RETScreen’. This is a program that the Canadian government has put out to help consultants and estimaters plan for renewable energy conversions

I need to find a graph or date showing how much renewable energy the states of Australia uses, for example Darwin – 38%

Please help, been looking for ages

Hi Dear,
Fossil fuel products dominate Australian energy consumption and this will remain the situation for the foreseeable future. Australia’s dependence on fossil fuels is heightened by the fact that electricity is largely produced in coal-fired power stations; approximately 84% of electricity for Australian homes and industry comes from coal and 12% from renewables, mainly hydroelectricity.

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