[pp.int.general] Don't roast our planet

[Charly Pache]

Andrew, thanks for your input, I read once 'nuclear' electricity was
cheaper because the costs of the storage and re-treatment were not included
in the electricity bill but were paid by the states, is it true?

About the deaths/serious injuries after a major nuclear incident, i guess
you should consider the higher number of people who get cancer and die from
it into the figures. And the population is still contaminated many decades
after the accident, like in Tshernobyl. The worst report talks about
'985,000 deaths as a result of the radioactivity released' [1]. Fukushima
consequences will be probably terrible as well and it's no wonder they
stopped all their nuclear plants in Japan. In my opinion, the risk is to
high. Better a life with less confort than a life with cancer.

But you're right about the wind energy, i heard that the big companies just
do it to to make money with public subventions, they don't really care
about being green or efficient.

[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster_effects#New_York_Academy_of_Sciences_publication

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Andrew Norton <ktetch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> > Right now, Spain is producing 10% of it's energy with renewable sources,
> > and 11% of its electricity with wind power. Wind power is (as stated by
> > US dpt. of Energy) significantly cheaper than nuclear power, and below
> > market-prices. The cheapest source is advanced combined cycle, which
> > will increase its price in the next years, as it's based in fossil fuels.
> >
>
> Ooh boy. You combined the W and the N in a statement, and oh boy...
>
> First, Nuclear is expensive, yes, why? Because of an institutionalized
> paranoia that ranges on the obscene. Were we to submit any other form of
> electricity generation to it, nuclear would be the cheapest.
>
> We had a major nuclear incident last year. Despite that, the
> deaths/serious injuries at nuclear power locations remains? Oh, Zero.
> How many fatalities have there been at wind power sites in, say, 2011?
> ELEVEN!
> Oh my.
>
> Do you know what constitutes a 'leak' at a nuclear power station? If you
> take a smoke detector in, it will flag a leak alarm. If you carry a
> bunch of bananas, it will trigger a leak alarm, you have a handful of
> brazilnuts? leak alarm...
> I haven't actually checked this but some very rough calculations
> indicate to me that if you take a wind power turbine, and put it in a
> nuclear power site, it will set off the leak alarms.
> THIS IS WHY IT'S SO EXPENSIVE.
>
> When you have people making policy that don't understand the science,
> then you have serious problems. I live in Georgia. We're actually
> getting a new nuclear plant built here (albeit many many miles from me).
> There's lots of nuclear protesters around there. About 20-25 miles away
> is a coal plant (one of the biggest in the US - Georgia Power's plant
> Scherer) and there's NO nuclear protesters there. Obvious you might
> think. Just one problem - residents around plant Scherer, are starting
> to suffer from Uranium poisoning, as the ash pool leeches into groundwater.
>
> I have no worries about nuclear power. Perhaps because about 10 years
> ago, i did some design work at a nuclear power plant+reprocessor. Last
> September, I sat next to (or withing 5 meters of, at all times) a
> nuclear reactor. Not just ANY reactor though, but one a 17yo kid had
> built himself. here it is -
> http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d32/ktetch/0903011932a.jpg (that
> bright spot on the left side of the pic is from my laptop, which is
> where I was sitting, working the mixer desk) and here's a video of it in
> action, showing it's radiation output with a Geiger-Muller counter
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrbgIQ8X3uc
>
> Of course, all this is because I understand radiation, and nuclear power
> (really, it's not that hard. and the day before, I'd led a panel on a
> particle accelerator that has uses including dealing with nuclear waste)
>
> But Wind? Wind scares the crap out of me. If there's no wind, it
> generates nothing. If there's too much wind, it generates nothing
> because they have to stop it so it doesn't break. If the brakes fail, it
> catches fire, and spews huge amounts of toxic smoke. These fires are
> usually left to burn because they're incredibly difficult to put out,
> and very high up (and fanned by the high winds that started it). And if
> the fire spreads it can be VERY nasty; one wind-turbine wildfire in
> Australia torched an area of national park roughly the same size as the
> Fukushima exclusion zone. Then there's the blades - In Germany it's been
> shown that bits of blades can embed themselves in house roofs kilometers
> away. If it gets cold, they can throw big ice chunks just as far.
>
> then there's effectiveness. A study by the UK National Grid found that
> wind turbines provided only an average around 23% of their rated
> generation capacity. So you have to build even MORE. That's more
> expense, and of course, that's not usable all the time.
>
> The UK was also looking at, I believe, cutting the heavy subsidies paid
> to wind generators, who were being paid even if they were generating
> NOTHING.
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/9076458/Wind-industrys-extensive-lobbying-to-preserve-subsidies-and-defeat-local-resistance-to-turbines.html
>
> But seriously, if you want to talk about cost, make sure you understand
> ALL the facts, especially those facts which drive the costs. Know your
> facts, know your science, know that nuclear is the best option at present.
>
>
> - --
> Andrew Norton
> http://ktetch.co.uk
> Tel: +1(352)6-KTETCH [+1-352-658-3824]
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