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Re: Bishops respond (Grand Mufti of SA: ''Destroy *all* the churches'' in the Gulf) |
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Posted by WillD on Sat Mar 24 15:31:07 2012, in response to Re: Bishops respond (Grand Mufti of SA: ''Destroy *all* the churches'' in the Gulf), posted by SLRT on Sat Mar 24 10:19:16 2012. That's because it's been beset by entrenched interests from the left and the right. The left wants solar and wind because their impact is ostensibly zero, even though they do not have the reliability to supply peak demand, let alone provide base power. And of course both power generation arrangements definitely have an environmental impact. The right wants coal, biofuel, and natural gas, except that biofuel is not an energy source, coal isn't a transportation fuel unless you get into synthetic fuels, and natural gas is already an imported fuel source. You're not going to get a good solution to our energy needs when we have so many hands grasping for every red cent their congressman can procure for their constituents. Unfortunately the Bush-Cheney energy policy effectively removed the role of the free market from determining energy generation fuel sources and we got the mess we find ourselves in now.At this point I'm putting my stock in Thorium fueled Molten Salt Reactors. If a company like Flibe Energy can start churning out safe, clean liquid fueled reactors from a production line so they can be installed as 100 to 500MW units effectively replacing the distributed networks of gas turbines now in use then we'll stand a chance of avoiding a major energy crisis. A Thorium breeder reactor may run very hot, but it also runs at nearly atmospheric pressure, so there's little or no danger of radioactive gas release. And that heat allows for the use of extremely small, very efficient turbines in the generators as well as providing the ability to provide process heat to other things like synthetic fuel production and desalination. Here's hoping they reach criticality on their design for the US Army in 2015 so we can stand a chance of a commercial thorium plant by the 2020s. |
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