Nuclear power stations

[Ixion]

Sounds like an idea your physics teacher pulled out of his arse,as teachers are wont to do when talking to naive students.
I have never encountered this theory in any of the scientific literature I have read in 40 years

Prolly thinking of Stephen Jay Gould and the theory of Punctuated Equilibrium. Very clever man. Very clever indeed.

[Pixie]

Prolly thinking of Stephen Jay Gould and the theory of Punctuated Equilibrium. Very clever man. Very clever indeed.

Or maybe Larry Niven's Protector,where the Protectors crashed near the Oklo natural nuclear reactor,so their infants and breeders would mutate and eventually become the human race.

[Cajun]

Personally i think nuclear power station is a good idea long term.

I mean greenys whine about wind power etc, but then say not in my backyard, they cause to much noise, eye sore etc etc.

In theory one power station could power whole of the country. (alot of infustrion[lines etc etc] would need to be put in place. And people when want to build dams, people wine about wildlife and lost of land and trees. Its gotta be one of the other.

And the whole thing about nz being nuclear free is a lot of bullshit,

half the machines in your hostibals put out more radiaton than a nuclear power station would[unless it goes bang, which is very rare indeed, and if you put plans in to places to help if worse does happen] i have also heard storys of nuclear materal being transhiped thru nz to usa.

People hear the word nuclear and assume the worse.

back in the early 90's the dairy board were offered two nuke subs to pay the russians bill.

[SPman]

Tesla's design was for power transmission via RF.Plasma was not involved

Was Suzuki?

[jonbuoy]

I went on a guided tour of Winfrith Nuclear power station when they had open days. All the airlocks and security was pretty impressive, they gave us a giger counter and an old alarm clock with the luminous dials, the background radiation in the plant was less than the clock needles at about an inch away. People still have those sat by their bedside tables. I still wouldn't want to be around one when some nutcase decides to turn off the cooling system or drives a 747 into it for a laugh.

[Hitcher]

alot of infustrion [lines etc etc] would need to be put in place.

Infrastructure?

[Cajun]

Infrastructure?

Thanks Mr H thats word i was meaning

[Lias]

I'm all for having nuclear reactors in NZ, if for no other reason than to make that twat Lange spin in his grave.

[Jamezo]

I'm puzzled to see why people believe a nuclear reactor would be remotely economical here. When you add in all the fuel processing infrastructure it's a dead loss, it can only be cost-efficient if part of a large-scale centralised program, for which we do not have the demand.

[speedpro]

Why not build nuclear power stations next to race tracks?

[James Deuce]

I'm puzzled to see why people believe a nuclear reactor would be remotely economical here. When you add in all the fuel processing infrastructure it's a dead loss, it can only be cost-efficient if part of a large-scale centralised program, for which we do not have the demand.

K14's tried to point that out every time this issue comes up. We'd need lots of small reactors to manage our energy requirements, but we can't actually afford the infrastructure, and even the smallest reactors produce too much energy to fit our network.

But then he is only an energy trader, so what would he know? Eh? Eh?

We need to bring Tesla back from the dead. That Edison bloke ruined electricity. Ruined it.

[u4ea]

As you all know i am not a roket scientist and am going to wander off the track a bit as to me this is more of an environmental issue than one of efficiancy!
Why oppose nuclear power( personally dont like the idea)?As mentioned the government doesnt have a rebate scheme for solar users and the like and we are encouraged to recycle....halo.... what is happening with the stockpile of glass in the south island that has no -where to go.......and the state of our rivers and water ways is shocking!!!!!
Oh what about and all the mums and dads that have no qualms in using disposable nappies but bleet about the state of the environment !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So even though I am a bit of a tree hugger I alone cannot do a dam thing to improve the state of our country and its wellbeing.......................

[James Deuce]

So even though I am a bit of a tree hugger I alone cannot do a dam thing to improve the state of our country and its wellbeing.......................

That's the issue right there. Each and every person has to take responsibility for what they can do to "improve the state of our country and its wellbeing". One simple step we can all take is to crush every plastic container down to the smallest size we can to reduce the volume they take up in landfills. Every little thing helps.

Blaming the Govt for no solar rebate is a cop out too. We're saving for a solar eletricity generator to power our hot water cylinder. Not a solar water heater, they're a crap idea in a temperate zone that used to be rain forest. Too much cloud cover, and no mechanism for storing excess energy. My goal is to replace our roof tiles with solar cells. Yes they are expensive and contain long lasting pollutants, but that line of opposition stems from a mentality that uses stuff once. There is no reason why solar cells can't be made to last for many decades, and given the lines of research in organically and nanotech grown solar cells, it may be that in 50 years we'll be growing them in situ.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/science/40971.html

[James Deuce]

Oh what about and all the mums and dads that have no qualms in using disposable nappies but bleet about the state of the environment !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Number 1 was exclusively cloth nappies, number 2 was 50/50 thanks to multiple hospital admissions. Hospitals won't let you use cloth nappies. But then he was potty trained at 2 years, 4 months. No 3 will be in nappies for years, and I'll be buggered if I'm staying up until 2 in the morning scrubbing nappies.