All you green pseudo-scientists kept trying to tell me how wrong I am



http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-o...3960.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.

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.

(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

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.