OT: Gas Prices

[Renegade 13]

Fast Neutron Reactor Wikipedia Link

It's fast-neutron reactors I was thinking about. I've included a link to get you started.

They are capable of 'burning' spent nuclear fuel from conventional thermal reactors, and rendering such spent fuel much less toxic at the same time.

[Baron Munchausen]

Renegade 13 said:
Fast Neutron Reactor Wikipedia Link

It's fast-neutron reactors I was thinking about. I've included a link to get you started.

They are capable of 'burning' spent nuclear fuel from conventional thermal reactors, and rendering such spent fuel much less toxic at the same time.

It might have been the 'Integral Fast Reactor' actually. This is a specific type of 'fast neutron reactor' designed to completely use up the fuel and leave very little radioactive waste. The US project to develop this was in the news in the early nineties and that's where you might have heard of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reactor

[Renegade 13]

And there's some scary people in charge of China...

[Azselendor]

Natural causes of global warming is only a small percentage of the problem - and one that we can't really do much about. What we can do something about is cleaning up the way we live.

The problem is money, however. To clean up the world would most likely bankrupt every nation in the world five times over.

[rdouglass]

Yes, I think the oil companies are ripping us off and doing it because they can.

I vote for archologies (at least IIRC that's what they're called). There are places currently that are trying them small scale and they are meeting with mixed results.

Today, I drive to work and back 35 miles round trip and burn approx 2 1/2 gal gasoline to do it. 200 years ago I would have climbed down my stairs from my upstairs living quarters to my street level shop.

The new(!?) idea is to go back to these community environments where you can do all your daily tasks (work, shop, etc.) without having to drive a vehicle. What is an archology except one of these communities on steroids.

I've seen recent Discovery Channel (and other) shows on floating cities, gigantic city skyscrapers and other such constructs. Didn't notice a car road in any of them. And I don't think there are too many that would disagree that if we eliminated automobiles, gas would be cheaper and the earth would be a little cooler. No we would not stop any normal climactic changes, but we would induce them less.

[Renegade 13]

KlvinoHRGA said:
Natural causes of global warming is only a small percentage of the problem - and one that we can't really do much about. What we can do something about is cleaning up the way we live.

The problem is money, however. To clean up the world would most likely bankrupt every nation in the world five times over.

All it'd take is one or two large volcanic eruptions to emit gigatons of greenhouse gases, and make any human effort to stop greenhouse gas emissions futile.