Nuclear Power as Part of Sustainable Ireland?
- This topic has 22 replies, 13 voices, and was last updated 20 years, 2 months ago by
.
- Posts
@Dg101 wrote:
While admittedly nuclear fusion does require fuel, deuterium, which is one of the two fuels needed is available in water. And, we do seem to have quite a bit of that. Lithium is the other fuel, which is more of a concern, but estimates indicate that we have more than sufficient quantities to make fusion viable for the foreseeable future. And, waste from fusion is minimal, with only the reactor itself becoming highly radioactive, and that can be recycled after a period of roughly a century. So, yes, it is sustainable.
yes fusion is sustainable , but to my knowledge there is no working reactor anywhere that works on fusion. It is still a completely theoretical creation , that has only been achieved in laboratories.
Is it not time we realised that there is nothing we can do that is sustainable ?? . is it not time to realise that anyone who tells you there are no side effects , is either grossely naive , or plain straight lying ?
even windmills are of dubious sustainability , requiring mounds and mounds of concrete , which itself require the releasing of heaps of co2.
fission (curren nuclear stuff) is a way forward
It’s true that for the present fission is the only proven technique, but, as I mentioned earlier the ITER reactor in France is giving indications that commercial fusion is no longer the pipedream it once was, that we may see fusion reactors in the next decade or so. Which would mean that investing in fission now would seem like a poor choice.
not really even if there was to be fission comercially ready in a few years it would take a few decades to realistically test and refine the construction of such a such a process.
we already have no control over our enery source , which means we have no control over our economic future at all . A war , any war would tumble us into recesion , becasuse we would simply have to start turning things off.
what happens if and when there is a major pipeline destroyed through a terrorist bomb, and the price of petro triples for a few months . do you think people will be so anti nuclear then ?
for now we could get by radically changing our whole approach to taxing cars … but that is not going to happen.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
