“World War Zero”

[Bob Blaylock]

The sad news is this is all carbon intensive ... concrete production is one of the biggest sources of carbon pollution ... cooking limestone at 1,300ºC for two hours just belches the CO2 ... not to mention all the CO2 driven off the limestone to make it cement ... a pound of cement releases a pound of CO2 ...

Limestone sources free of mercury are few and far between ... keeping the mercury vapor from escaping is extremely expensive ... so it's just released into the atmosphere along with the CO2 ... the workaround is not use concrete for our power plants ... use wood framing ... what could possibly go wrong? ...

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

But what makes the lawsuits pointless?
Suing for 5 years to stop a new plant from being built makes plants more expensive, right?
Get a good, standard design, build a dozen plants.
End all these one-off, unique designs.
We have less than 12 years to save the planet.

Suing for 5 years to stop the building isn't expensive at all, the plant doesn't get built ... or the plant has to be re-designed to comply with written law ... we can't sue people willy-nilly, there has to be written law the lawsuit is based on ... besides, five years is a rather short period of time in the context of how long it takes from blank paper to name plate output ... the BIG problem is there's so many laws, and a fair part are conflicting ... and so many people in the industry ready, willing and able to ignore the laws ... TMI #2 is an excellent example of that ...

We have a standard design ... and Westinghouse went bankrupt trying to build them ... they sold the division and I don't know what became of it ... there's argument that the design wasn't good, in fact, I personally think it's downright bad ... water as the primary coolant ... that's stupid in every way ... just it's cheapest and quickest, profit before people ... the Chinese have their own design so any new power plants will have to buy their reactors from the commies ...

What are we doing with the waste? ... or do we build the considerably more expensive breeder plants? ... yeah, five years in court is cheap compared to that prospect ... and here the standard design hasn't been started ... 10 or 20 years to get blueprints drawn up, another 5 to 10 getting building permits ... call it 20 years before the first shovel-full of dirt gets moved ...

To have something up and running in 12 years ... we'll need to skip emergency generators, not build containment structures and don't install pressure relief valves ... we'll have our energy and just have to clean up the accidents as they happen ... or maybe not get freaked out at a doubling of birth defects ...

The sad news is this is all carbon intensive ... concrete production is one of the biggest sources of carbon pollution ... cooking limestone at 1,300ºC for two hours just belches the CO2 ... not to mention all the CO2 driven off the limestone to make it cement ... a pound of cement releases a pound of CO2 ...

Limestone sources free of mercury are few and far between ... keeping the mercury vapor from escaping is extremely expensive ... so it's just released into the atmosphere along with the CO2 ... the workaround is not use concrete for our power plants ... use wood framing ... what could possibly go wrong? ...

Suing for 5 years to stop the building isn't expensive at all, the plant doesn't get built

I don't believe you.

we can't sue people willy-nilly,

See above.

there has to be written law the lawsuit is based on ...

Yeah, lots of silly laws that allow people to sue to stop new plants.

besides, five years is a rather short period of time

I agree, plants have been delayed for much, much longer than 5 years.

 

[ReinyDays]

You think five years litigation is anywhere close to the cost of a molten sodium breeder reactor? ... I take it you don't litigate very much ...

 

[Sunsettommy]

Unlikely Allies Launch “World War Zero” to Mobilize America and World to Tackle Climate Change
Major new initiative will launch with six-figure advertising campaign; Brings together Democrats, Republicans, activists, diplomats, generals, entertainers, scientists, business leaders because “this is a war we must win”
Founding members include: Sec. John Kerry, Sec. Ernie Moniz, Sec. Hank Paulson, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gov. Christie Todd Whitman, Stacey Abrams, Gov. John Kasich, Cindy McCain, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Pres. Bill Clinton, Sec. Hillary Clinton, PM Gordon Brown, Rep. Jim Greenwood, Pres. Olafur Grimsson, Sec. Chuck Hagel, Admiral Lee Gunn, Ashton Kutcher, Katie Eder, Rev. Al Sharpton, Sen. Olympia Snowe, Richard Branson
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Unlikely Allies Launch “World War Zero” to Mobilize America and World to Tackle Climate Change — World War Zero

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Tramp who is an unbeliever in global warming & climate change, except when its a benefit for one of his properties.
Trump acknowledges climate change — at his golf course

Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Most of the people on the list live a high carbon dioxide emitting lifestyle, Schwarzenegger owns several large gas guzzling massive cars, including the Humvee. Di Crappio likes Massive Yachts, shall I go on?

Your partisan attack on Trump, doesn't help you here since he isn't pretending he is sensitive about climate stuff, unlike the hypocritical stiffs on the link you posted, does over and over. They are the real phonies, while Trump is out front saying to the world what he really thinks about the climate propaganda, that are fueled by the media, rogue scientists and the "founding members" assholes on the list telling everyone how sensitive they are, while not living like they are really that way.

Stop being a lemming, Penelope!