Thank you, i will just use this next time i explain this to someone. Just because the charging stations at places like UHCL and cracker barrel have been free does not mean that the electricity bill does not exist. To date 61% of US energy comes from fossil fuels, 20% from nuclear (and greater than 50% in some states), 19% from renewable, ironically Texas probably leads in that category too.
Nuclear reactor tech is where it is at, just requires massive amount of cooling. How many windmills would it take to equal one nuclear reactor?
Also, in response to the person claiming reactors are dangerous, Texas has two nuclear reactors. One 90 miles south of Houston, and one 40 miles north of Fort Worth. Also, never understood why the deforestation movement and coral reef restoration projects hit the backburners. One day weâre cleaning up the ocean and planting trees, the next day weâre using slight of hand in politics to seriously threaten the likelihood of turning harris county into Detroit over night.
You canât just delete a whole industry and say problem solved.
Nuclear fission is not fair weather, no need for specific weather conditions.
Im sure the cost is huge to build one, we know how to mine the materials, produces wicked power for years and years, and is one of cleanest/safest forms of energy known to date. Years back my friend educated me on âslow-coreâ nuclear reactors and swore on their development. Next gen nuclear is around the corner. They are getting smaller and smaller.
I donât think âwindâ is a special weather condition.
But factors like construction costs, maintenance costs, overhead, standard facility sizes, efficiency stats etc. would help put those output numbers in a better context for understanding.
With respect to safety, they are safer than the petrol chemical industry and considered the third safest form of energy behind wind and solar. There are reactors all over the US, and there has never been a full scale meltdown.
The last significant event was back in the 70s and '81. Since 2012, there has been an update to safety standards in the US to limit leakage.
As far as the Detroit comment, the state of Texas houses 300,000 petrol industry jobs, a great majority of those in the Ship Channel area. If the goal is really ânet zero emissionsâ by 2030, youâre going to need to replace those jobs. âSlight of handâ because when is the last time the average American has sat down to actually read one of these giant spending bills? Well i have.
Hey Coachv,
I read your article and found this part telling.
It pointed to an Electric Power Research Institute study that estimates all blade waste through 2050 would equal roughly 0.015% of all the municipal solid waste going to landfills in 2015 alone.
If that analysis is correct, and I admittedly I havenât tried to find out more, it seems like this is a
really really insignificant problem.
I agree, someone on this forum has to be an engineer. I am just a Biologist, I only studied thermodynamics to the level required to understand small scale reactions, adenosine triphosphate, stuff like that.