tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post1771560994098180062..comments2024-03-07T02:00:01.582-05:00Comments on NEI Nuclear Notes: Food Versus Energy?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-4788283066877888502011-02-15T10:42:17.163-05:002011-02-15T10:42:17.163-05:00"Have any independent analyses ... suggested ..."Have any independent analyses ... suggested this is even feasible?"<br /><br />I don't know. I'm pretty sure the plants won't be built, partly because these days, nine out of ten people wring their hands and call for studies, leaving one in ten to actually do something useful. It used to be the other way 'round. Decline of the West.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-53041224647815724032011-02-14T14:26:02.955-05:002011-02-14T14:26:02.955-05:00if the US builds several hundred nuclear power pla...if the US builds several hundred nuclear power plants over the next 20 to 30 years dedicated towards producing hydrogen<br /><br />Several hundred in the next 30 years? Have any independent analyses (not counting Lyndon Larouche) suggested this is even feasible?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-39296704320791439532011-02-11T21:13:32.990-05:002011-02-11T21:13:32.990-05:00There's no logical reason to use cropland to p...There's no logical reason to use cropland to produce fuels like ethanol. The US produces enough urban and rural biowaste to produce a significant amount of carbon neutral methanol, gasoline, diesel fuel, and jet fuel. <br /><br />And if the US builds several hundred nuclear power plants over the next 20 to 30 years dedicated towards producing hydrogen, the waste carbon dioxide (80%) from urban and rural biowaste combined with that hydrogen could produce enough carbon neutral fuel (gasoline, methanol, diesel fuel, jet fuel, dimethyl ether) to completely replace the use of fossil fuels for transportation in America.<br /><br />There's no logical reason why America can't become-- completely- free from the fossil fuel economy within the next 20 to 30 years through the mass production of nuclear power plants and the utilization of urban and rural biowaste.Marcel F. Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16245086958213100840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-71172112472327722062011-02-11T14:10:44.054-05:002011-02-11T14:10:44.054-05:00After listening to anti-nukes for 40 years, the an...After listening to anti-nukes for 40 years, the anti-ethanol debate sounds very similar. If it takes wild leaps of logic to define a crisis, I suggest that no crisis exists. One of the many reasons the fleet of US nukes are so productive is that we find the root cause of problems and fix them.<br /><br />US farmers are very productive with the ability to saturate the world food supply. Processing some of the energy out corn or soy animal feed is a food and energy option while critics want to frame the debate as a food or energy choice. Much in the same way nuke critics want to debate energy or safety, instead of energy and safety.Kit Pnoreply@blogger.com