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April 23rd, 2006, 10:17 PM
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Re: OT: Gas Prices
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It's too bad space flight isn't more reliable; we could then just send nulear waste into the sun!
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Someday our descendants are going to discover a use for our nuclear "waste" and will be annoyed at us for making the stuff so difficult to recover. (No smiley; not kidding.)
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April 24th, 2006, 12:27 AM
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Re: OT: Gas Prices
The begining of an alternative?
Granted it is still a long way off but if it can be perfected and refined...
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April 24th, 2006, 03:03 AM
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Re: OT: Gas Prices
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Someday our descendants are going to discover a use for our nuclear "waste" and will be annoyed at us for making the stuff so difficult to recover. (No smiley; not kidding.)
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April 24th, 2006, 03:11 AM
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Re: OT: Gas Prices
He's not joking; remember how you posted....
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...I was reading about a 'new' type of reactor that will actually utilize the waste materials from conventional nuclear reactors...
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Well, if that becomes quite successfull, and we've tossed all our nuclear waste into the sun, we can't get it back to power the new plants.....
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April 24th, 2006, 09:05 PM
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Re: OT: Gas Prices
Actually, I wasn't talking about some theoretical nuclear waste tossed into the the sun, but about the glassified waste that we're currently producing as a storage solution.
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April 25th, 2006, 05:21 AM
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Re: OT: Gas Prices
You want lower fuel bills? Get one of these: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4930794.stm
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April 25th, 2006, 02:31 PM
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I wouldn't fit very well in the front seat and I'm not sure I can beleive anybody but a midget could fit in the back.
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April 26th, 2006, 01:21 AM
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Re: OT: Gas Prices
I heard something interesting and something worrying too.
An analyst on CNN attributed rising gas prices to demand from China as well as the oil industry gouging. At first I thought that was harmless, but then the what-if, paranoid thought entered my mind that maybe China is forcing gas prices up intentionally. They don't have to worry about loosing money on paying higher gas prices since most of the US's merchandise and goods are currently being produced in china meaning china gets the money to pay higher prices.
Just a paranoid thought.
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