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Originally Posted by avandonk
There is no simple solution.
We are all living on stored wealth in the form of fossil fuels. This has allowed us to overrun Planet Earth like vermin. Yes I am one of these vermin.
If all the current known fossil fuel reserves were burnt at the current increasing rates we would have a planet that was uninhabitable. We have about ten years before the tipping points of our climate occur.
Any form of nuclear fission power just puts this grim future back by about fifty years.
The long held promise of unlimited energy from fusion reactors is tainted by the fact that the reactor vessel made of exotic metals will become structurally unsafe due to the high neutron flux within about twenty years. These reactors are too dangerous to dismantle! The solution is to build another next door etc.
We have a nuclear reactor that will last for about another five billion years.
It is the Sun.
If we do not learn how to use renewable energy and limit our greed to this limited energy, we do not have a future as a species.
It is down to ALL of US!
Bert
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I respect your opinion as I do all others. Obviously we have differing ideas. But all your premise is based on todays technologies.
We have enough nuclear material already mined to stop using coal and run the planet for 500 years. according to Barry in his video. People can argue that with him.
Uranium mining is a far less disturbance on the land than is strip mining coal.
Burning coal releases tonnes of radioactive material into the atmosphere. Most are not aware of that. I wasn't
But while Australia has an abundance of coal and the unions control the government be it ALP or Libs we will continue to run coal. That is no.1 reason libs dumped the tax.
I have solar power. was the 1st thing I put on my recently purchased home. If Kevin Rudd was really so caring about the environment instead of handing out free money he would have paid for panels on every roof top.
By the time we consider seriously nuclear fusion power or some other great saviour will be discovered. I'm all for that.
Maybe instead of calling it a Carbon tax they should have just called it and environmental tax. After all we did away with CFC with legislation. Didn't need a tax for that