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Thread: Should we extend the use of nuclear power?
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[quote=GUEST74178,429129]The amount of energy that can be derived from harnessing wind or water is about 15 order of magnitude less than what can be derived from uranium. Why haven't we heard about what happened in 1944 when a natural gas explosion in Cleveland an entire neighborhood and killed 130 people? And yet we still support natural gas because it fuels the lifestyle that we as the US have been accustomed. What about coal mining? Did you know that it killed 100,000 workers in the 20th century? And for all those tree huggers out there.... Six ounces of energy produced by that transformation will be enough to power a city the size of San Francisco for 5 years! No chopping down trees... No hazardous emissions in to the atmosphere. the amount of energy that can be derived from harnessing wind or water is about 15 orders of magnitude less than what can be derived from uranium Hoover dam must back up a 250-square-mile reservoir (lake mead) in order to generate the same electricity produced by a reactor on one square mile. Windmills require even more space! Since air is less dense than water. Replacing one of the 2 1,000-megawatt reactors at indian point in Westchester County, N.Y., would require lining the Hudson River from New York to Albany with 45-story windmills one-quater mile apart--and then they would generate electricity only about one-third of the time, when the wind is blowing. IF THE WIND IS BLOWING! [/quote]
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