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Originally Posted by Starkler
Nuclear power appears to make a lot of sense considering our large uranium reserves.
Australia is a big contributor of greenhouse gasses due to our reliance on brown coal. We also have more space than virtually anyone for the safe disposal of nuclear wastes.
If nuclear power makes sense anywhere on this planet, there wouldnt be many places more suited to it than Australia, except for the fact we have huge cheap reserves of dirty burning brown coal.
Did you know that solar photovoltiac cells have a break even point of 20 years to get back the energy used to manufacture them ?
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Did you know that the present reserves of uranium will at best last another 30 yrs..Did you also know that the US have not built a new nuclear power station since 1978 and that they are heavily subsidised to operate..Did you also know that to produce the fuel rods for the core, it takes more electricity, produced by a coal fired power station than the amount of electricity produced by that nuclear power station...Did you also know that nuclear power stations are 30% efficent compared to 60% for coal...Did you also know that nuclear power stations release more heat to the atmosphere, per mega watt than coal..
And one last quote, solar cost recovery compared to nuclear....
solar does recover cost, nuclear does not...i prefer to recover costs...
and plz look past the propaganda, the US during the 50's started it to provide fuel for there nuclear weapons program and now they are believing there own bull...