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Highly credentialed Dem concedes party's Energy policy flawed - DrTorch - 12-01-2011 10:18 AM
All you green pseudo-scientists kept trying to tell me how wrong I am
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ebinger-energy-20111128,0,1503960.story
Quote:Today's Democratic leadership has reached a nadir in rational energy policymaking. In the last several years, congressional party leaders have squandered opportunities for a nuclear waste management storage program and have shown opposition to shale gas production. This month, the party reached a new low: The Obama administration's delay of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada
Bonus: nadir is one of my favorite words.
RE: Highly credentialed Dem concedes party's Energy policy flawed - RaiderATO - 12-01-2011 06:04 PM
How expensive would it be to launch our nuclear waste out into space, or into the Sun?
I guess you'd have to encase it in something that would stand up to an explosion, or re-entry and crash landing onto Earth.
RE: Highly credentialed Dem concedes party's Energy policy flawed - DrTorch - 12-01-2011 09:16 PM
(12-01-2011 06:04 PM)Raider_ATO Wrote: How expensive would it be to launch our nuclear waste out into space, or into the Sun?
I guess you'd have to encase it in something that would stand up to an explosion, or re-entry and crash landing onto Earth.
Plus it's heavy
RE: Highly credentialed Dem concedes party's Energy policy flawed - smn1256 - 12-01-2011 09:44 PM
(12-01-2011 06:04 PM)Raider_ATO Wrote: How expensive would it be to launch our nuclear waste out into space, or into the Sun?
I guess you'd have to encase it in something that would stand up to an explosion, or re-entry and crash landing onto Earth.
I believe that very same solution was proposed 30 years ago and the environmentalists went nuts.
RE: Highly credentialed Dem concedes party's Energy policy flawed - I'mMoreAwesomeThanYou - 12-02-2011 10:31 AM
(12-01-2011 09:44 PM)smn1256 Wrote:(12-01-2011 06:04 PM)Raider_ATO Wrote: How expensive would it be to launch our nuclear waste out into space, or into the Sun?
I guess you'd have to encase it in something that would stand up to an explosion, or re-entry and crash landing onto Earth.
I believe that very same solution was proposed 30 years ago and the environmentalists went nuts.
Why wouldn't they go nuts? I mean having our trash burn up before it even gets there because it as hot as...well, the sun is a horrible idea. Unless their beef is the cost to get it out of the atmosphere. Then that makes sense. I believe they were trying to save the sun though.
RE: Highly credentialed Dem concedes party's Energy policy flawed - DrTorch - 12-02-2011 10:44 AM
(12-01-2011 06:04 PM)Raider_ATO Wrote: How expensive would it be to launch our nuclear waste out into space, or into the Sun?
I guess you'd have to encase it in something that would stand up to an explosion, or re-entry and crash landing onto Earth.
Go back and read what people were protesting about re: the Cassini spacecraft (had a small nuclear reactor for electricity).
Nuclear waste can be recycled, minimizing risk, and I believe helping w/ costs. Carter didn't like it, so we haven't gone back since.
RE: Highly credentialed Dem concedes party's Energy policy flawed - Owl 69/70/75 - 12-02-2011 01:50 PM
(12-02-2011 10:44 AM)DrTorch Wrote: Nuclear waste can be recycled, minimizing risk, and I believe helping w/ costs. Carter didn't like it, so we haven't gone back since.
Yes.