drafter can attest that it is better to screw FrankieT than......

tail told me ya can't prove a negative

just the females...ya sick bastid

WRONG FORUM YA SICK FARKS

Is there a "screw/be screwed by Frank" forum?

As of now Solar and wind are NOT the way forward.The materials used to build the windmills aren't "green" and windmills kill thousands and thousands of birds a year.Not to mention no wind, no power and the cost of upkeep. Solar just isn't cost effective yet either. For a single home with lots of room for panels it pays off in the long run but building the panels and batteries etc isn't "green" either. So far Tidal power generator tests have not produced results that make it viable either.

Right now our best options are Hydro electric from dams and Nuclear. The biggest problem with dams is the environmental impact of building a dam. Our nuclear reactors in the US are running on decades old designs and it's impossible to license a new reactor in the US because of one thing. Politics. The fossil fuel industry has pumped so much money into politics specifically to stop Nuclear reactors from becoming a viable solution.All that nuclear waste we have sitting around could be reused as fuel in breeder reactors but thanks to Jimmy Carter we can't build breeder reactors in the US. Breeder reactors actually create more fissile material than they use which can then be reprocessed back into usable fuel.Slow breeder reactors can be built so that they CANNOT melt down. By reprocessing the fuel you get tons less nuclear waste too. All of the rare earth nuclear waste we have sitting in dumps all over the US could be used to fuel breeder reactors. All research into these reactors stopped by the 1960's because we found new rich sources of Uranium.

Light water reactors (what we use now) extract about 1% of the energy from the uranium and then that's it. The fuel rods are pulled and have to be replaced. The old fuels rods are now nuclear waste and if not processed to remove to super heavy isotopes can have a half life that is unknown. Because there is more than one type of isotope in the spent rods and all have different half lives. A breeder reactor extracts about 70% of electrical power while creating more fissile material. At present technology levels the goal is a ten year cycle. Meaning a breeder reactor running for 10 years will create enough new material to run another breeder reactor for another 10 years. The big argument against fast breeder reactors is that the extra fissile material created can be processed into weapons grade plutonium. This was the reason Jimmy Carter pulled all Federal money out of the breeder reactor industry and made it impossible for a new permit to be granted to build a new nuclear plant. This is a very simple rundown of the ups and downs of these reactors.

The fast breeder reactors also known as Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactors are called fast because the neutrons move fast in these reactions

The slow breeder reactors or Thermal Reactors you've probably heard of before because they can use Thorium. Both use Molten Salt instead of water because water absorbs to many neutrons.

We should be doing crazy research into slow breeder reactors since Thorium is so common we would NEVER run out.

I hate the idea of forcing things "at gun point" be that gun be taxes or some other form of extortion but the crap going on here in Florida is crazy. My electricity bill always has and always will be insane and none of that money is going towards a nuclear alternative be it "slow" or "fast" as CelticBomber described. (thank you for that by the way, I learned something about nuclear energy today).

I believe in competition but it seems like there is no profit in these alternative power sources (whichever solution it is) otherwise Duke Energy would be lowering their prices or I could simply move (within the state) to the alternative power source that is cheaper.

new and improved is never cheaper...

Check out the trades.

and figure out what wallet candelas are...

So we gotta trade you some wallet candelas to keep from getting our o-ring trashed?

it's called protected sex racketeering


this may be just about out of my comfort zone...HA!