On Monday 10 September 2007 20:19:26 Clarence Milstead wrote: > Hydrogen power is a boondoggle as are some of the other alternative fuels. > The real answer is electricity and nuclear power, which are already proven, > available, and ready for use if the politicians will get out of the way and > let a lot of nuclear plants be built. They have pandered to the anti-nukes > for too long and we are way behind since it takes a long time to build a > nuclear plant. I agree with your partly -- the problem with nuclear power is only partly the crappy technology but mainly because it's run commerically at lowest possible cost, and they always fine tune short-term costs downward, puttin of future problems for... the future. It's not as simple as pandering to a special interests, that's an over simplification. The commercial energy people have long demonstrated an inability to do things right -- which requires thinking of the future in a way that needs to disregard their own trival profit concerns. Clean up the crappy technology (of which I know a fair amount) and I'd be good to go. But I agree we may end up with those bozos running the ship if we really get backed into a corner. Fusion is the same -- that it's cleaner is a total 100% lie. Neutron bombardment does the embrittlement and causes secondary fission-like products in all of the surrounding materials. It's alie and a crock. Neutrons can't be contained, they simply eventually impact nuclei and break them up or make unstable isotopes. Physics doesn't lie. _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list