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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 09:56 AM Original message |
UN Climate Chief: "There is no credible emission strategy without nuclear power." |
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Systematic Chaos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 06:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. You mean man does not live by solar pool heaters alone? |
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razzleberry (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. UNFCCC --> self serving BS |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 10:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Oh. How interesting! |
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motocicleta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
4. Pardon me if I misunderstand, |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 11:35 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Right on Moto....nt |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 11:48 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Um...gee...mmmm...let's see now... |
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motocicleta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 06:34 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I ask for conservation on all fronts, not replacing one bad idea with another. |
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motocicleta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 06:39 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Wait a second - you actually are a nuclear physicist? |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 01:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Your points have been addressed over, and over, and over again |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 01:44 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. There should be an FAQ. |
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motocicleta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 02:20 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Nuclear power is neither totally unsafe nor a panacea for our |
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Dogmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:50 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. "the former" = environmental problems? |
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motocicleta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:30 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Totally reasonable post - thanks |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:59 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I don't think any of the "pro nulear" gang... |
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motocicleta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 09:33 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. The problem is, there is no solution WITH nuclear. |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 10:18 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. The more energy we have to work with, the more people survive. |
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motocicleta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 10:24 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. And nuclear fixes the water depletion and agricultural production |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 10:30 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. In practice, it probably won't fix those problems for everybody. Maybe few. |
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motocicleta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 09:46 PM Response to Reply #22 |
36. Could you link the "scrub CO2 from the atmosphere" theory, or studies? |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 11:43 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Actually, the scrubbing can be accomplished with any energy source. |
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motocicleta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 06:21 AM Response to Reply #37 |
45. I see. |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 09:28 PM Response to Reply #20 |
33. The more energy we have to work with, the more people we end up with. |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 04:46 AM Response to Reply #19 |
25. It's certainly not a magic wand |
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motocicleta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 08:59 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. I suppose |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:52 AM Response to Reply #32 |
42. Fat chance |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 06:13 AM Response to Reply #19 |
43. It's nice to see that someone else gets where the real problems are coming from. |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 10:07 AM Response to Reply #43 |
51. Moral debt... |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 10:45 AM Response to Reply #51 |
53. I understand the spirit in which you ask. |
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motocicleta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 10:45 AM Response to Reply #43 |
52. funny you should be the other inmate who thinks that, Paul |
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Dogmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 01:53 PM Response to Reply #43 |
58. Did I just read that? |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 02:19 PM Response to Reply #58 |
60. Yes, actually you did. |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 04:41 PM Response to Reply #60 |
65. So which is the worst-case scenario: |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-19-07 10:20 AM Response to Reply #65 |
69. That's an easy one. (And some thoughts on carrying capacity) |
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Dogmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 10:45 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. My preferred style of writing |
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motocicleta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 09:38 PM Response to Reply #24 |
34. A. I read it |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 03:46 AM Response to Reply #34 |
39. If I may interject... |
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motocicleta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 06:34 AM Response to Reply #39 |
46. I suppose, again, |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 04:16 PM Response to Reply #46 |
64. That cuts both ways |
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motocicleta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 08:38 PM Response to Reply #64 |
68. We really should stop posting on this, but |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 09:48 AM Response to Reply #24 |
49. NegativeNancy assigns to me positions that I did not state |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 02:02 PM Response to Reply #15 |
59. GHG emissions from the nuclear fuel cycle will increase - not decrease - as uranium ore |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 09:50 AM Response to Reply #12 |
50. If you find this forum to be maddening, then you should find somewhere else to spend your time |
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losthills (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 07:03 AM Response to Original message |
9. The huge deceit |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:45 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. This is nonsense. We discuss it all of the time and find that the antinuclear industry |
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losthills (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 08:23 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. You try to whitewash it all the time... |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 06:44 PM Response to Reply #16 |
29. Uranium mining is as bad as coal mining? This is a rather incredible statement. |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 12:17 PM Response to Reply #29 |
55. The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act covers uranium miners, millers and transporters |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 01:21 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. So in 60 yrs of mining they've covered 16,500 people |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 01:27 PM Response to Reply #56 |
57. No - that's the number of claims settled since 1990 - there are thousands more pending |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 02:35 PM Response to Reply #57 |
61. Are there 500,000 claims still pending? |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 04:05 PM Response to Reply #61 |
63. Until the last atom of fission products and 239Pu has decayed away - we won't know the total |
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Dogmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 04:43 PM Response to Reply #63 |
66. Don't epidemiologists track this? |
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Bread and Circus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 10:45 PM Response to Reply #10 |
23. I'm not part of any industry. I'm just sick of reading your one-sided bullshit. |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 05:18 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Grab a mirror... |
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Bread and Circus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 07:54 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Who says I'm a PV zealot? I've never put one post up pushing PV |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 06:17 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. "clean, renewable and inexhaustible forms of energy." |
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Bread and Circus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 07:19 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Nuclear is very clean when everything goes well. |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 02:40 AM Response to Reply #31 |
38. Fair enough |
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Dogmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 04:45 AM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Hydro? HYDRO?!?! You BASTARD! |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 05:44 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. pah |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 06:18 AM Response to Reply #41 |
44. You're in fine form this morning! |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 04:01 PM Response to Reply #44 |
62. Why thankyou, Mr P... |
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Bread and Circus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 06:54 PM Response to Reply #38 |
67. Thanks for the links....and my apologies. I truly am here to learn. |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-19-07 10:42 AM Response to Reply #67 |
70. Everything you could possibly want to know about nuclear power - in one pdf |
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Dogmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-16-07 09:54 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. You're overlooking a few things |
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philb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
30. Electric Power Resarch Institute water power generation projections |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-17-07 09:40 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. Actually, I think that the situation with glaciers might have some bearing on this matter. |
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losthills (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 06:57 AM Response to Reply #35 |
47. Another attack Robert Kennedy Jr? |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 08:36 AM Response to Reply #47 |
48. Is he supposed to be beyond criticism? |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-18-07 10:51 AM Response to Reply #47 |
54. Absolutely. |
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