Renewable Energy: The promises vs reality gap!!

[Brambo]

While I firmly believe nuclear power has a major role to play in the energy market, I do also believe it must be respected and treated with appropriate caution. Yes, you can get cancer from too much sunlight - but we don't ban solar-generated electricity for that. Nuclear fuels have a similar ability to kill yet far more people die of overexposure to sunlight (cancer) than have people killed by radiation. No denying there are some such fatalities. Please read the linked article to get some understanding:

Nuclear Fatality at Wood River Junction | Yankee Classic Article - New England Today

I was very close to the events described. A friend was on the ambulance crew involved; he was exposed to radiation, lots of radiation, from the first victims being transported. He died of pervasive cancer a very few years later. Was his death caused by radiation? Almost surely. But more certainly because, at the time, the dangers were not fully understood and precautions that could have been taken were not.

But that does not make it logical to ban nuclear usage than it might be logical to roof over the entire planet to keep people from being dangerously sunburned.

OH AND BULL FUCKING SHIT

The dangers of radiation were EXTREMELY well known by oh...the 1920s.

Just because your idiot friend didn't know or didn't care...does not mean that the dangers were not fully understood.

 

[HenryBHough]

Bram, your respect for the dead is deserving of a Rose Garden Beer Fest.

 

[Brambo]

Bram, your respect for the dead is deserving of a Rose Garden Beer Fest.

I have little respect for idiots.

Years ago, before my education which I stated elsewhere on this forum.

I was a FF/Medic and drove an ambulence for years. and a HazWoper.

If someone told me to render aid to a sick person coming out of a Nuclear reactor.

I'd tell them to go fuck themselves...if they told me I'd be fired, I'd sue them and have won.

 

[Brambo]

You want to know how bad radiation is?

The military Nuclear Reactor in Idaho that was destroyed in a Steam Explosion was bulldozed into a 1,000 foot long 20 foot deep trench then buried in concrete.

Bodies and all.

Nobody went in there to collect the dead...no body respected them.

Bulldozed.

Sorry your friend was apparently too stupid to realize THAT is how you deal with nuclear accidents.

And since that incident happened in the 1961...I doubt your friend should have been so unawares of how to PROPERLY treat the exposed bodies to radiation.

 

[HenryBHough]

Democrat compassion.

A sad thing to behold.

 

[Brambo]

I'm talking about the 1961 Idaho Falls incident.

Nuclear reactor accidents in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Brambo]

Democrat compassion.

A sad thing to behold.

It's not compassion to handle a dying person who is irradiated and themselves, now radioactive.

Your friend was stupid, and died a costly (to the tax payer) and long painful death just years after his stupid blunder.

AND I blame the government for "downplaying" the dangers of Nuclear accidents.

Chernobyl is a radioactive wasteland, you can't spend more than about 1 week there out of a single year without receiving a potentially fatal dose.

Chernobyl destroyed 1/4 of ALL USSR WHEAT Production.

Think about that for a second. Imagine 1/4 of all US wheat/corn production being destroyed over night.

Furthermore, Chernobyl cost the USSR 2x their GDP to fix. Imagine a Nuclear accident in the US costing us $38 Trillion Dollars.

And 400,000 people had to work it...that's the Apollo Program.

Compassion?

FUCK YOU...Nuclear power is the most dangerous thing on earth, and one accident has the potential to KILL US ALL.

 

[Old Rocks]

If Lefties were serious about reducing carbon emissions, they would be promoting Nuclear power enthusiastically.

Instead, they shun and scorn even talk of nuclear power out of ignorance directed from above. NOT A SINGLE AMERICAN HAS DIED FROM RADIATION GENERATED BY A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT - EVER.

What other industry can make a similar claim?

Solar, wind, tidal, etc., are fairly harmless, but also pointless and economic nonsense.

Wrong.

Richard L. McKinley, Specialist 4, United States Army

 

[skookerasbil]

Havent seen one single AGW k00k address the topic in this thread.........they change the subject = ghey.

Renewable energy has and always will be a fringe energy. It is today ( actually the levels are so low as to be laughable ) and even by 2040, will still be only 10% and most of that will be hydro-power. 10%

 

[skookerasbil]

Oh and btw......my AGW pals are spot on correct about nuclear energy. Fuck nuclear......gotta phase this shit out altogether. It is one area I concur with the k00ks on.