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Lets Just Go Nuclear...
There are too many fields of innovation for energy on the horizon. I could cover the use of biofuels created by captured carbon that is then burned to create more carbon in a cycle using the sun as energy. Perhaps nuclear fusion is on the horizon. Perhaps we should use something we have had for decades.
Nuclear power! What is wrong with nuclear energy? Why is it feared? Why does France use it so happily?
This largely has to do with a public perception of nuclear energy. When one mentions nuclear energy the room goes in to a cold silence or a bitter argument about waste.
Of all of the sources of energy, nuclear is by far the cleanest. There is little argument in that fact. Spent nuclear fuel can be recycled as it is only partially used in a nuclear reactor before being tossed away. This is a useful resource sent to storage forever.
There are also nuclear reactors that produce no serious waste. None. Please don't take this from me though. Bill Gates does a much better job of explaining the situation to you below. Just click play and open your mind a little.
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Comment by Ternura Rojas on May 13, 2010 at 11:34am -
Hello, interesting topic:
I would like to pint out that we are not affaid of nuclear energy, we are affraid of those irresposible apes (called humans) who handle radioactive isotopes in a really careless, nasty way.
I have to watch this talk you posted, but coming from BG I don't know, my first impulse is distrust :-(
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Comment by Ryan Friedrich on May 13, 2010 at 9:40pm -
Sadly this is the same distrust and disbelief that Nuclear works that has been instilled in to so many people. I ask then, why are French nuclear programs so succeessful? Are they not the same irresponsible apes you mention? Gates is a philanthropist. He's done being the richest man in the world, he's already made it. I can honestly think of no good reason to distrust him at face value.
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Comment by Gabriel Martin on May 13, 2010 at 9:53pm -
I think that we should come up with a better idea, but I dont see the resources available, so I am starting an online learning platform. Perhaps one day...
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Comment by Ryan Friedrich on May 14, 2010 at 2:22am
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If we have resources to bailout massive banking groups and car makers yet turn a blind eye on nuclear energy, then we have a serious problem.
I should emphasize something here. The world is a game of resourcefulness not resources. If you learn to play that game properly, you end up with more resources than you know what to do with. Ask the banks.
Please wake up. Nuclear is here. Nuclear is clean. Nuclear only continues to get better. How is this difficult to see? If I call it "Super Clean and Very Powerful" energy will you think differently? Is it just the way the word has been used in the past? Nuclear energy is used every day in 1000's of naval ships from every Nuclear country on the PLANET. Somehow explain how we don't have the resources or it isn't safe.
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Comment by Ternura Rojas on May 14, 2010 at 8:34am
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Hello Ryan, I understand you views, believe me, if it was YOU in charge of Nuclear Energy i would totally trust, I trust a person who is self-trusting. and this leads me to you question:
"why are French nuclear programs so succeessful? Are they not the same irresponsible apes you mention?" They are not sucessful! installing nuclear plants all over the planet does not make you the right or perfect one for the job. Let us not forget that French are building those plants inplaces such as China, when french leave Chinese will take over, and since chineses people are not exactly very environment-minded (they are in fact no person.minded either) we are are all in risk, those Nuclear plants in China are time bombs!
Regarding Billy hero: I am writng you from a little tiny Eee computer, it costed me less than 250€. here:
This model was developed with money that BG took for a program suposedly directed to give one of these lively gadgets to each poor kid in the "third world". Well i have mine, but kids never saw one. he used the money to develop the tool and he is selling it to us in the "first-class-world"
But I can give BG one more chance...maybe two, yes!
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Comment by Ryan Friedrich on May 14, 2010 at 8:50am
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EeePCs... Those are developed by Asus, as a matter of fact I own one. They are quite nice, I have the 11 inch clamshell model. I've never heard of Gate's involvement in Asus. Gates doesn't "Take" money. You're apparently misinformed. His nonprofit foundation is worth billions that they spend doing a number of things. Curing malaria is one of his bigger and more simple goals. He's done quite a good job if you look at the real statistical data. If you don't trust his data, please check with the difference in malaria rates between 1995 - 2010 in Africa from the WHO. Then compare those years when his programs went in to effect. He's also the ONLY person to put the money forward (millions) for clinical trials of a malaria vaccine.
The French operate a number of their own Nuclear reactors within Europe. We also operate a number of nuclear reactors on carrier ships and submarines. The technology is quite safe. I have friends in the navy who are nuclear engineers.
I just did some fact checking. Asus has no publicly known deal with Bill Gates. Are you confusing him with someone? Did you mean Microsoft? He doesn't own that company anymore. He owns the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Comment by Ternura Rojas on May 14, 2010 at 12:06pm
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Still don't buy it man, good ideas in the wrong hands...In Spain there is a saying: "the cemetery is nothing but full of good intentions" Look for example how Einstein's work ended up in Hiroshima :-( bad, bad thing...but it worked! it met the purpose (someone elses's)
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