tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post7130287090571789719..comments2024-03-07T02:00:01.582-05:00Comments on NEI Nuclear Notes: When Nuclear FadesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-49103328989959212062008-11-18T02:15:00.000-05:002008-11-18T02:15:00.000-05:00I do not think we need to take extreme positions. ...I do not think we need to take extreme positions. I hate the particulate matter and sulfur that comes from coal burning.But we have to live with coal as a major power source at least in my lifetime.<BR/>It shall be best if coal and nuclear power coexist and co-operate for least side effects. Steam or hydrogen from nuclear power can convert coal to gas which can be cleaned of particulate matter and sulfur (Mercury also where applicable) and to liquid fuel where necessary or desirable. Carbon dioxide is still under discussion. Gradually we can go to waste bio-mass (which is burnt off sometimes burning houses with it!) and convert it to gas and liquid fuel. We,our children and grandchildren can continue to use energy in an orderly manner.jagdishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15126711161372003634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-1843467265430931492008-11-17T16:38:00.000-05:002008-11-17T16:38:00.000-05:00NEI gets off message from time to time. No, I don'...NEI gets off message from time to time. No, I don't want clean coal (if ever there were an oxymoron, this would be it) to "work" because it will never rival nuclear power, and because burning coal must be relegated to the history books ASAP. I want the erosion and final collapse of the coal powered industry. That's creative destruction. That's technological progess: industries collapse, only to be replaced by better ones.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-81655570108154726682008-11-17T15:59:00.000-05:002008-11-17T15:59:00.000-05:00"...but then again, you really don't need the coal..."<EM>...but then again, you really don't need the coal plant if you've got the nuclear plant ...</EM><BR/><BR/>Interestingly though, one nuclear plant dedicated to <A HREF="ftp://ftp.geog.uu.nl/pub/posters/2008/Let_the_earth_help_us_to_save_the_earth-Schuiling_June2008.pdf" REL="nofollow">pulverizing olivine</A> can take down the carbon from eight coal plants, somewhere else in the world, that -- even if you don't need them -- you've got.GRLCowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03894036301406557803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-33924581786439804652008-11-17T15:19:00.000-05:002008-11-17T15:19:00.000-05:00And that's the bitter irony. Nuclear power plants ...And that's the bitter irony. Nuclear power plants need to start replacing baseload energy from coal power plants as soon as possible. <BR/><BR/>No new coal power plants should be allowed to be built anywhere.<BR/><BR/>Marcel F. Williams <BR/><BR/>http://newpapyrusmagazine.blogspot.com/Marcel F. Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16245086958213100840noreply@blogger.com