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Topic - Energy Conversions - pictureguy 20:04:10 04/11/22 (70)

I believe in pedal-powered generators. - peppy m. 11:31:46 04/12/22 (1)

RE: I believe in pedal-powered generators. - pictureguy 14:35:18 04/12/22 (0)

You can hide all you want - nuclear is the ONLY future energy source - Victor Khomenko 06:32:26 04/12/22 (21)

not the only one - DrChaos 19:06:29 04/12/22 (0)

RE: You can hide all you want - nuclear is the ONLY future energy source - pictureguy 12:06:39 04/12/22 (15)

Well, I'm OK with having dry cask storage near me - Dave_K 14:27:19 04/12/22 (14)

What doesn't make sense to me... - dark_dave56 04:14:36 04/13/22 (3)

I know. Everyone pays lip service to clean energy. - Dave_K 06:15:27 04/13/22 (2)

"Corruption scandal"... - dark_dave56 04:48:33 04/14/22 (0)

RE: I know. Everyone pays lip service to clean energy. - pictureguy 19:02:20 04/13/22 (0)

Those spent rods become perfect fuel for breeder reactors. - Victor Khomenko 15:28:15 04/12/22 (9)

Yes, they would. We could also recycle them into MOX fuel as we used to do. - Dave_K 07:12:08 04/13/22 (2)

For as long as we give money away for silly things like solar... - Victor Khomenko 07:29:18 04/13/22 (1)

Except most people don't trust him (nt) - Dave_K 07:54:36 04/13/22 (0)

RE: Those spent rods become perfect fuel for breeder reactors. - pictureguy 16:01:27 04/12/22 (5)

The longer the half-life, the less radioactive it is - Dave_K 07:52:33 04/13/22 (1)

RE: The longer the half-life, the less radioactive it is - pictureguy 14:32:14 04/13/22 (0)

Breeder reactors drasticaltly reduce the halflife of remaining fuel - Victor Khomenko 04:32:23 04/13/22 (2)

Aren't the French big on breeder reactors?... - dark_dave56 05:10:26 04/13/22 (1)

Currently, there are only two operational ones, both in Russia - Victor Khomenko 05:21:41 04/13/22 (0)

Nobody wants to pay for it - Dave_K 11:25:07 04/12/22 (2)

Shouldn't that fall under our massive "infrastructure" spending... - dark_dave56 05:34:41 04/13/22 (0)

There is some work going on on breader reactors - Victor Khomenko 11:44:34 04/12/22 (0)

"Entropy will find you", said the professor. nt - free.ranger 07:55:44 04/12/22 (0)

It might surprise you...- - srdavis2000 05:42:13 04/12/22 (0)

RE: Energy Conversions - dark_dave56 04:24:44 04/12/22 (1)

RE: Energy Conversions - pictureguy 11:39:35 04/12/22 (0)

If it took more MMBTU to get an MMBTU out of a bbl of oil, - Road Warrior 20:51:17 04/11/22 (4)

LOL! It would take more than that.... - Ivan303 05:51:58 04/12/22 (0)

RE: If it took more MMBTU to get an MMBTU out of a bbl of oil, - pictureguy 20:59:17 04/11/22 (2)

Simple economics is all you need to know. The energy content in a bbl of oil (~6mmbtu) dwarfs the mmbtus - Road Warrior 16:27:59 04/13/22 (1)

RE: Simple economics is all you need to know. The energy content in a bbl of oil (~6mmbtu) dwarfs the mmbtus - pictureguy 23:16:19 04/13/22 (0)

RE: Energy Conversions - JDK 20:23:23 04/11/22 (37)

RE: Energy Conversions - pictureguy 20:48:29 04/11/22 (36)

"Roofing over the desert will have unintended concequences"... - dark_dave56 04:33:03 04/12/22 (25)

RE: "Roofing over the desert will have unintended concequences"... - Ivan303 05:48:49 04/12/22 (24)

Bad idea - Victor Khomenko 07:31:52 04/12/22 (18)

RE: Bad idea - dark_dave56 07:57:57 04/12/22 (17)

RE: Bad idea - pictureguy 11:52:28 04/12/22 (0)

And... - Ivan303 08:20:49 04/12/22 (13)

Yeah... let the poor guys pay for your new roof - Victor Khomenko 08:29:50 04/12/22 (12)

While keeping in mind that the private 'energy sector' is one of the more generously subsidized... - Ivan303 09:26:30 04/12/22 (1)

Like you needed an excuse to rape someone - Victor Khomenko 10:02:10 04/12/22 (0)

I'm not a liberal... - dark_dave56 09:01:30 04/12/22 (7)

How is taking tax breaks different from getting checks - Victor Khomenko 10:21:23 04/12/22 (6)

"Public money is public money"... - dark_dave56 04/13/2203:08:47 04/13/22 (0)

I don't have a problem with "assistance"... - dark_dave56 11:07:19 04/12/22 (2)

I wasn't aiming at you personally - Victor Khomenko 11:19:50 04/12/22 (1)

I really don't even worry about the rates very much... - dark_dave56 11:42:40 04/12/22 (0)

It isn't. - b.l.zeebub 10:24:41 04/12/22 (1)

Exactly... - Ivan303 10:47:18 04/12/22 (0)

Funny how certain folks actually believe that there... - MWE 08:44:37 04/12/22 (1)

RE: Funny how certain folks actually believe that there... - dark_dave56 04:38:11 04/13/22 (0)

You are not totally off the hook, if you... - Victor Khomenko 08:09:54 04/12/22 (1)

Our roof was installed at the same time and... - Ivan303 08:32:19 04/12/22 (0)

"Urban sprawl" is certainly an issue... - dark_dave56 06:37:10 04/12/22 (4)

RE: "Environmentalists tend not to "like" the petroleum industry." - Ivan303 08:18:28 04/12/22 (3)

Preaching to the choir here... - dark_dave56 09:09:37 04/12/22 (2)

Looking to add more but we got regulatory problems here.... - Ivan303 09:40:41 04/12/22 (1)

Our utilities haven't gotten that "greedy"--yet... - dark_dave56 02:48:07 04/13/22 (0)

RE: Energy Conversions - JDK 21:20:00 04/11/22 (9)

RE: Energy Conversions - pictureguy 22:29:37 04/11/22 (8)

RE: Energy Conversions - JDK 22:45:18 04/11/22 (7)

RE: Energy Conversions - pictureguy 11:23:42 04/12/22 (6)

The "scary" fact about recycling... - dark_dave56 11:55:57 04/12/22 (5)

The economics of almost all industries are wrong and look good until ..... - JDK 15:13:41 04/12/22 (4)

RE: The economics of almost all industries are wrong and look good until ..... - pictureguy 19:28:24 04/12/22 (3)

Hey--I'm one of those "lazy bastards"!... - dark_dave56 07:45:47 04/13/22 (0)

RE: The economics of almost all industries are wrong and look good until ..... - JDK 23:38:13 04/12/22 (1)

RE: The economics of almost all industries are wrong and look good until ..... - pictureguy 23:19:05 04/13/22 (0)

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