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| Thread ID: 68471 | 2006-04-30 00:56:00 | Nuclear power. | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
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| 450735 | 2006-05-04 08:04:00 | Bu not, I hope, a light "Brighter Than A Thousand Suns". I think you are thinking of solar energyT,we are talking about nuclear. Don't you worry,you will catch up. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 450736 | 2006-05-04 08:20:00 | I think you are thinking of solar energyT,we are talking about nuclear. Don't you worry,you will catch up. Perhaps you might like to catch up on the real problems in NZ with nuclear Cicero. Its a little more basic for a small country like this one. www.electricitycommission.govt.nz |
godfather (25) | ||
| 450737 | 2006-05-04 08:33:00 | I think you are thinking of solar energyT,we are talking about nuclear. Don't you worry,you will catch up. You are not very bright today Cicero, your memory is weak, I am indeed talking atomic energy: alsos.wlu.edu "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One— I am become Death, the shatterer of Worlds." Robert Oppenheimer en.wikipedia.org |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 450738 | 2006-05-04 08:34:00 | Perhaps you might like to catch up on the real problems in NZ with nuclear Cicero. Its a little more basic for a small country like this one. www.electricitycommission.govt.nz No catching up there,heard all that before. The wizard omitted to say what was going to provide NZ's future needs. At every turn,someone will object. I don't profess to know what the answer is,but all options should be looked at and by non alarmist preferably. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 450739 | 2006-05-04 08:46:00 | You are not very bright today Cicero, your memory is weak, I am indeed talking atomic energy: alsos.wlu.edu "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One— I am become Death, the shatterer of Worlds." Robert Oppenheimer en.wikipedia.org Oh dear,we are besieged by doomsayers and head in the sanders,with luck there are few of us that see the need for serious consideration of all types of energy production to be looked at. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 450740 | 2006-05-04 08:55:00 | Never understood this nuclear free New Zealand thing - a nuclear power station sounds like a great idea to me and Invercargill would be a fine place to build it. | Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 450741 | 2006-05-04 08:58:00 | No catching up there,heard all that before. The wizard omitted to say what was going to provide NZ's future needs. At every turn,someone will object. I don't profess to know what the answer is,but all options should be looked at and by non alarmist preferably. There are no brownie points to be earned in brushing aside expert opinion without scientifically arguing each of the points he raised, and refuting them if you are able to do so. Each point he raised is actually very valid, technical and not alarmist, and here, I am talking from experience of having been in the industry for 7 years, from 1963 to 1970, admittedly 40 years ago now, but the principles have not changed. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 450742 | 2006-05-04 09:09:00 | There are no brownie points to be earned in brushing aside expert opinion without scientifically arguing each of the points he raised, and refuting them if you are able to do so. Each point he raised is actually very valid, technical and not alarmist, and here, I am talking from experience of having been in the industry for 7 years, from 1963 to 1970, admittedly 40 years ago now, but the principles have not changed. T,is there any point in comparing experts,like I have said b4,we have to choose a side. If there isn't some kind of nuclear power in a 100 years I will eat my hat. For the life of me I can't envisage the country full of windmill's. Sorry if you took offence T,the last thing I would want, is for you to think I would get at you,other than in a nice way. ;) |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 450743 | 2006-05-04 09:12:00 | Each generation makes the same mistakes as the previous one, wearing different fashions. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 450744 | 2006-05-04 09:35:00 | Not offended at all Cic. In principle I have very little objection to nuclear/atomic power generation, it can be operationally safe, despite Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island. However the points raised in that article are very valid for a country the size of New Zealand with the amount of generating capacity presently existing and how much extra we may need in the foreseeable future. A single set of 1000MW poses large problems, when the average generation is 4500MW, as he mentions, also, not the least when it is powered up and it locks on to the grid. That is, it locks on in frequency and phase, that can be quite a fearsome event, believe it or not :) Any one of the points he raised is sufficient to raise serious doubts about going nuclear power generation in NZ, note, none of them are safety related, and taken all together more or less rules it out |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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