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5/5/2016 10:41:13 PM
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Best source of wide scale energy/electricity?
Which do you think humanity should be using the most? Give your reasoning if you'd like as well. Also if you vote other, please say which type you're thinking of.
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12 RepliesNuclear power, easily. There's about 3,300 fossil fuel plants that supply 67% of US' electricity. It takes 62 fission reactors to supply 20%. Numerically, that means fission reactors marginally put out more electricity, while not directly emitting CO2. Also, nuclear fission is more resistant to fuel price fluctuations, because Uranium is readily available. If you doubled the price of uranium, fission reactor's energy hikes up like 9%, do the same with coal and it's like 31%. (These numbers are from a study from Finland, I don't have the link right now but I can find it if anyone wants it. ) Fission also costs almost nothing to produce, the bulk of the overhead is building the reactor and federal regulation costs. Here's the big problems with it: People don't understand the difference between a nuclear reactor and a nuclear bomb. Scared public = less government subsidies = demotivated private sector. Transitioning from a fossil fuel based economy to a nuclear fuel based economy will flood the construction job market, however will ultimately take jobs away from the energy market. Less power plants = less workers. Nuclear power worker training > fossil fuel power plant worker training. Also, fusion is basically the energy market's worst enemy. It produces so much energy, with so few reactors needed, the cost of energy would be practically nothing. It's the next step for humanity though, so hopefully profit incentive doesn't take us to the grave.
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Nuclear
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Solar power- 28% I take it yall don't live in Washington state, now do ya
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5 RepliesCat/buttered toast
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Hamsters
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Dyson Sphere
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Homos riding dildos
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1 ReplyHamsters. Lots of hamsters.
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2 RepliesGet Nikola Tesla on the phone!
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7 RepliesNuclear power is probably the best despite the issue of waste management or risk of meltdown. Hopefully we can achieve fusion power in the next few decades.
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6 RepliesNuclear.[spoiler]we see how well that went for Japan [/spoiler]
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Hypothetically nuclear since there isnt any harmful pollution from it The main problem is how to dispose of the nuclear waste. There isnt really. If i remember when we talked about thus in chemistry my professor said tge government wants to store it where they did the nuke testings during ww2. Next problem is transportation. What happens if whatever is carrying it crashes?
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Potato
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Hydroelectric has gotten me thinking. Couldn't we put something deep down in the oceans somewhere? There are all these great big currents of water flowing around I'm sure we could figure out a way of using all that kinetic energy like with conventional hydroelectric plants.
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Edited by Cultmeister: 5/12/2016 8:04:44 AMClearly nuclear. If we spent enough money on research we could easily find much safer methods of dealing with the waste, most of the problems we've had in the past have been down to poor maintenance of the facilities and old technology. Fukushima for example; pretty sure I heard it was built in the 50s and the lack of maintenance was the reason it leaked after the hurricane/tsunami/whatever it was I forget.
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3 RepliesWind and solar. There is still so much land and sea we can use to add more, it will just take time.
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The endless amount of homeless in Portland...just sayin
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Fusion
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Your moms not an option?
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Hamsters running in wheels. It's what powers bungie and DE's servers.
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*puts solar panels in Alaska for summer months. Puts nuclear power plant on giant barges with cables to connect power to cities.
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Hydricity http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/hydricity-could-couple-solar-and-hydrogen-power http://www.japantoday.com/smartphone/view/technology/solar-powered-hydrogen-system-to-be-installed-at-train-station-in-kawasaki As long as they can keep it from going BOOM!!!! it's good.
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3 RepliesSolar power in deserts, wind power in stormy/windy areas, and nuclear power in the latter.
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1 Reply*calls Goldman Sachs* *looks at recent polls* *counts number of 0s on check* I have decided for myself that fossil fuel is the way to go.
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Edited by Britton: 5/12/2016 3:06:13 AMCombination of all, at least until fusion takes off.
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1 ReplyFossil fuels #FTW
