Nuclear Benefits? v Pure Energy
(1 min) - How green is atomic power? The 1950's "Atoms For Peace" program, plugged by President Eisenhower, asserted that nuclear energy could be used for anything from growing crops to powering your kitchen. Uh...look where that got us!
(PES Network Video; Sept. 17, 2007)
Top
100: Cold Fusion (index
page) - Also known as Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR), or
Chemically Assisted Nuclear Reactions (CANR), has had hundreds of
replications. The difficulty has been in producing worth-while
yield reliably.
Top
100: Colliding
Plasma Toroid Clean-Energy Breakthrough - Plasma Toroid
technology by EPS
remains stable without magnetic confinement, by using low-level
background gas pressure. Could provide non-polluting electricity and
heat for homes, as well as motive power for vehicles and aircraft, at
a fraction of the cost of conventional energy generation. (PESN;
March 8, 2006)
Rapperswil
group on the move - Rapperswil
group, of Switzerland, whose core patented energy technology has
to do with phonon-mitigated direct nuclear-to-electrical energy
conversion within a deuterated piezoelectric crystal, now has a stock
offering on NASDAQ. (ZPEnergy; Jan. 17, 2006)
Hortong
Electron Orbit Energy Generator - HORTONG (E=mc2)
is a new process of transformation of energy with allegedly no need to
use radioactive material to obtain the loosening of energy of the
orbit of the electron. (PESWiki; Mar. 28, 2006)
Some
greens change tune on nuclear power - ''It's not that something new
and important and good had happened with nuclear, it's that something new
and important and bad has happened with climate change." (SLTrib
/ NY Times; May 16)
Nukes
Are Green - Nuclear plants do not give off any greenhouse gasses. (NY
Times; April 9) (Thanks Susan Carter)
[Comment: With nuclear remediation
technologies available, why not eliminate the radioactive waste problem?]
Nuclear
Energy: A Bitter Pill to Alleviate Global Warming? - Some
prominent environmentalists--as well as Senators McCain and Lieberman, who
back legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions--are supporting further
development of nuclear power to serve as an emission-free bridge to an
economy based entirely on renewable energy. (Environmental Magazine.com;
May 25)
Mirror particles form new
matter: Di-positron - A US team has created thousands of the
molecules by merging electrons with their antimatter equivalent:
positrons. There is a huge interest in the technology from the
military as well as energy researchers who believe the lasers could be
used to kick-start nuclear fusion in a reactor. (BBC News;
Sept. 12, 2007)
Nuclear > Floating
Nuclear Power Station - World's first, to be built by
Russians, said to cost only $200,000 [slave labor? typo? (missing a
few zeros?)]. The plant, slated for construction in 2006, will
be equipped with two power units using KLT-40S reactors producing
power at around 5 or 6 cents/kW-h. Will also be able to supply heat
and desalinate seawater. (Slashdot; Sept. 10, 2005)
Iran using
biotechnology to extract purer uranium - Says bacteria makes
the production of yellowcake 100 to 200 times cheaper. Yellowcake is a part
of the early stages of the nuclear fuel cycle -- a process that Iran insists
it only wants to master so it can generate electricity. (PhysOrg; Aug.
29, 2005)
Nuclear Benefits? v Pure Energy
(1 min) - How green is atomic power? The 1950's "Atoms For Peace" program, plugged by President Eisenhower, asserted that nuclear energy could be used for anything from growing crops to powering your kitchen. Uh...look where that got us!
(PES Network Video; Sept. 17., 2007)
An Achilles Heel for
Nuclear Energy?{article near end of page} - Just as the world is
considering moving back to nuclear energy in a big way, the industry may be
facing a fuel shortage. "Thorium, which is more abundant than
uranium, can be bred into fissile U233 and should take care of things till
the sun goes out." (The New American; March 30)
Atomic
Power Creates More CO2 Emissions than Natural Gas Plants? -
Atomic power stations do not emit CO2 themselves, but the
processes involved in creating atomic energy do: including mining,
milling, uranium enrichment, atomic fuel production, power station
construction and operation, storage and reprocessing of spent fuel,
long-term management of radioactive waste and closing down old power
stations. (Alt-Energy-Blog; July 5, 2005)
Huge
radioactive leak closes Thorp nuclear plant - About 20 tonnes
of uranium and plutonium fuel dissolved in concentrated nitric acid,
enough to half fill an Olympic-size swimming pool, has leaked through
a fractured pipe into a huge stainless steel chamber, forcing the
closure of Sellafield's Thorp £2.1bn reprocessing plant. (Guardian.uk;
May 9, 2005) (Thanks Aerielle Louise)
Japan
Shuts Research Nuclear Reactor after Glitch - A Japanese research
nuclear reactor was shut down on Friday due to a malfunction, but there was
no radiation leak to the outside environment and no workers were affected. (Reuters;
June 14, 2005)
Illegal
Aliens Arrested at Nuclear Power Plant - U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents arrested three illegal aliens
at the Omaha Nuclear Plant. (ICE.gov; Sept. 15, 2005)
Cleaning
Uranium Waste with Bacteria - U.S. researchers have discovered
that some common bacteria (Shewanella) can convert deadly heavy metal
into less threatening nano-spheres; and that these bacteria can
convert soluble radioactive uranium into a non-toxic solid form called
uraninite. (Pacific Northwest National Laboratories; August 7)
(See Slashdot
discussion)
Nearly
300 Groups Reject Nuclear Energy as a Global Warming Solution -
Nearly 300 international, national, regional and local environmental,
consumer, and safe energy groups are urging U.S. Congress to focus on clean
and renewable sources of energy and energy efficiency and conservation. (Common
Dreams; June 16, 2005)
EMF Safety Store
LessEMF.com is the place
to buy Gauss meters, RF
meters, shielding.
ADVISORY: With any
technology, you take a high risk to invest significant time or money
unless (1) independent testing has thoroughly corroborated the
technology, (2) the group involved has intellectual rights to the
technology, and (3) the group has the ability to make a success of
the endeavor.
All
truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
--
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
"When you're one step ahead
of the crowd you're a genius.
When you're two steps ahead,
you're a crackpot."
Nuclear
Energy: A Bitter Pill to Alleviate Global Warming? - Some
prominent environmentalists--as well as Senators McCain and Lieberman, who
back legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions--are supporting further
development of nuclear power to serve as an emission-free bridge to an
economy based entirely on renewable energy. (Environmental Magazine.com;
May 25)
