Unsteady supply of small amounts of power that takes up a lot of land. However, an interesting variant is microwave power, where a sattelite gathers solar energy and beams it down to earth.
Solar works okay like in a flashlight/ radio
Ill have to look into that; it sounds more expensive than nuclear power.
It’d be renewable though
Biomass and Nuclear are really the only viable alternatives to fossil fuels as of today.
The Government has turned many nuclear bomb researches into nuclear power researchers in the last few years. Quite a few advancements have been made.
fusion power is closer then you think. the next exparimental fusion power plant (called idin) is going to be built in a few years. they chose the location next year. so far in the running are canada, japan and france the US droped out a wile ago.
fusion power is vary cheap it only costs 34 cents to extract enough tritium from heavy water to prodose the same amount of elecctricity as 30,000 gallons of gas. and the waste is heliem.
but fusion requires a large amount of energy to maintain, thats why canada is such a good choise for the idin, which i belive is a tomomak reactor(shaped like donut)becase we can put it right next to a Candu reactor (fistion reactor).
but once fution is working it becomes vary cheap. but countyrs like the Us will probable not adopt it right away for the same reson why there is still so much homeless in the states…. there is no money in it. and the bottom line is all the capitilist cares about
I guess I don’t understand why the U.S wouldn’t adopt it if it is efficient and it ends up paying for itself. Wouldn’t that be the reason the capitalists would adopt it. If there were absolutly no cons to fussion energy, then don’t you think it would be alot farther than it is now. If there are cons, what are they?
I didn’t know that they could even get tomahawks efficent enough to produce any amount of energy. That’s quite amazing.
Thats actually a good idea. Put a Nuclear Fission power plant next to a Nuclear Fusion plant. The Fission powers the Fusion, which in turn powers millions of homes. You could make the cost of electricity go down twentyfold.
Yanny, it all sounds good now, but you have to think of the cost. How much will one of these things cost to build. And will fission/fussion destroy the environment despite the fact that they happen naturally?
And how much will it costs when riots ensue in 30 years when we run out of oil?
Nuclear power is, by far, the cheapest form of energy.
Disagree. Nuclear power is very expensive.
Check some of these sites about nuclear power out:
Some of these might highlight pros as well, I didn’t have time to look.
Expensive to start up, but the reactor lasts a long time, uses almost no fuel (very little Uranium is used), and creates a massive amount of energy. Once the original plant is payed off, it can power large areas for the cheapest price available.
And what about the environment and the chance of disaster?
We’ve had 2 disasters in 50 years. Ever think of the envirmental effects burning, drilling, and spilling oil results in?
Although nuclear disasters are terrible (I’ve been reading up on chernobyl lately), with contaminated food supplys and increased rates of cancer, specificly thyroid, in children, disasters on this scale are hard to get with modern reactor technology. Human contact with the control rods has been reduced to virtually nothing, they can no longer be pulled out past the minimum safety limit, and new technology makes it nearly impossible for radiation to be spread even if the core was breached.
Very true bossk, but the potential effects of another nuclear disaster are much worse than the potential effects of oil disasters. I agree that the risk has gone down alot, but there is still the chance, as there is a chance with anything, that a disaster can happen.
some great advances in fusion power are being made, but we aren’t there yet.
As a side note, I have a friend who lived in Hungary (spelling?) during the Chenobyl accident, and they weren’t allowed to eat anything that grew out of the ground for a year. I don’t know why though.
Radiation effects everything, even the plants that were planted during and possibly after the blast.
radioacitice isotopes were spread throughout most of eastern and northern europe, travling through the atmosphere and eventually ending up in the ground. Plants growing there then absorbed the isotopes and presented then in a consentrated form for human consumption. When enough of the radioactive atoms collect in various points of the human body enough x and gamma rays can be produced to mutate the structure of the sorrounding tissue creating a nice cancer.
The only potential disaster we cannot be protected against involving Nuclear technology is terrorism. If we abandon Nuclear technology because of terrorism, the terrorists have won.
