Most people don't realize that if we switched to 100% renewables then your electric bill would rise by about 500%. My co worker thinks renewables just magically produce energy with zero waste. I showed him pictures of the windmill disposal yards, bird population destruction, and the non existent battery storage that would have to be built to maintain the grid during bad weather.
Yup, they act like I'm against "green energy" Nah, I'm against paying an arm and a leg to keep my refrigerator running. If I could power my house for 20 years with solar power I would. I can't afford to put another house payments worth solar panels on the roof to only have the first hail storm destroy them, more likely a tornado. Assholes never consider if the idea was viable, that the conservative minded people would already be implementing them to stop paying taxes on energy 5 times over. I hate taxes and will work twice as hard just to avoid another portion of my income going to fund my destruction.
And they're so worried about pollution, but refuse to even consider nuclear power plants, which could supply plenty of energy very cheaply and cleanly, if they would stop suing the snot of them for bogus reasons.
Like they don't realize we have Submarines and Aircraft Carriers that run on this technology with almost a perfect track record. I'm not crazy about our current disposal program but that is because of the military industrial complex building our infrastructure around weapons instead of energy.
Is it true that there's a way to recycle a lot of the waste with a different type of convertor or plant? I'm not a nuclear scientist, obviously. Someone said once there was a way, but I can't remember what the reason was that we don't use it here.
Thorium Salt Reactor was researched to handle this but something about it's viability or something was brought up after it became viral on YouTube. We won't mine Thorium because of it's EPA restrictions but if we did we could also mine our Lithium Deposits because it's all part of our rare earth makeup. I'm a dumbass former Grunt who welds now so take all of this with a grain of salt knowing I have no formal education on the matter 🤷♂️🤣
Commercial reactor spent fuel could be reprocessed to extract the Plutonium from it. Spent fuel rods typically contain more fissile material than natural Uranium.
It was a Carter era decision to stop all efforts towards Plutonium reprocessing in the US. There is no longer any commercial infrastructure for reprocessing in the US.
As a side note, it is a federal requirement that a spent fuel repository allow for retrieval of the spent fuel.
Thus leading to everyone who was next to that weapon system while cycling or the maintenance personnel breathing in the dust but hey that isn't dangerous at all🤦♂️.
Ok this is largely not true. The Atomic Energy Reorganization Act of 1953 separated the AEC into the DOE and NRC. The DOE had its own reactors at Savanah River and Hanford. DOE is responsible for spent fuel.
Civilian reactors with the exception of a couple of early test reactors are light water moderated designs. The reactor designs utilized in commercial power production are safer than designs optimized for Plutonium production.
Living completely renewably = living like 300 years ago
There is no "complete" renewable unless you're literally living in a shack and grow food or raise livestock with no outside help. In essence going back to the 1700s. Ironically, you'd have to destroy all these democrat run cities to get anywhere near close to renewable. That's where the pollution and crap comes from.
But they separate their "recyclables", they buy Organic, drive a new Prius, own the newest iPhone, use minority owned hair salons, donate their lightly used clothes to Africa 🤷♂️🤣
Totally agree! I'll switch to an electric when I can stop charge it up for at least +300 Miles and be back on my way in under 5min. That's what I can do now with a gasoline engine. I really don't care about renewables benefits. I'm just looking at cost, convince and efficiency. If its good for the environment great! Most of it is just BS and making money just like oil companies. They renewables sector just want a piece of the pie.
Most people don't realize that if we switched to 100% renewables then your electric bill would rise by about 500%. My co worker thinks renewables just magically produce energy with zero waste. I showed him pictures of the windmill disposal yards, bird population destruction, and the non existent battery storage that would have to be built to maintain the grid during bad weather.
People are stupid. They hear one thing that sounds good to them but never take the time to research while preaching it.
Yup, they act like I'm against "green energy" Nah, I'm against paying an arm and a leg to keep my refrigerator running. If I could power my house for 20 years with solar power I would. I can't afford to put another house payments worth solar panels on the roof to only have the first hail storm destroy them, more likely a tornado. Assholes never consider if the idea was viable, that the conservative minded people would already be implementing them to stop paying taxes on energy 5 times over. I hate taxes and will work twice as hard just to avoid another portion of my income going to fund my destruction.
And they're so worried about pollution, but refuse to even consider nuclear power plants, which could supply plenty of energy very cheaply and cleanly, if they would stop suing the snot of them for bogus reasons.
Like they don't realize we have Submarines and Aircraft Carriers that run on this technology with almost a perfect track record. I'm not crazy about our current disposal program but that is because of the military industrial complex building our infrastructure around weapons instead of energy.
Is it true that there's a way to recycle a lot of the waste with a different type of convertor or plant? I'm not a nuclear scientist, obviously. Someone said once there was a way, but I can't remember what the reason was that we don't use it here.
Thorium Salt Reactor was researched to handle this but something about it's viability or something was brought up after it became viral on YouTube. We won't mine Thorium because of it's EPA restrictions but if we did we could also mine our Lithium Deposits because it's all part of our rare earth makeup. I'm a dumbass former Grunt who welds now so take all of this with a grain of salt knowing I have no formal education on the matter 🤷♂️🤣
Commercial reactor spent fuel could be reprocessed to extract the Plutonium from it. Spent fuel rods typically contain more fissile material than natural Uranium. It was a Carter era decision to stop all efforts towards Plutonium reprocessing in the US. There is no longer any commercial infrastructure for reprocessing in the US.
As a side note, it is a federal requirement that a spent fuel repository allow for retrieval of the spent fuel.
Our current disposal program is to start a war every few years which allows us to use up a bunch of depleted uranium rounds.
Thus leading to everyone who was next to that weapon system while cycling or the maintenance personnel breathing in the dust but hey that isn't dangerous at all🤦♂️.
Ok this is largely not true. The Atomic Energy Reorganization Act of 1953 separated the AEC into the DOE and NRC. The DOE had its own reactors at Savanah River and Hanford. DOE is responsible for spent fuel.
Civilian reactors with the exception of a couple of early test reactors are light water moderated designs. The reactor designs utilized in commercial power production are safer than designs optimized for Plutonium production.
Living completely renewably = living like 300 years ago
There is no "complete" renewable unless you're literally living in a shack and grow food or raise livestock with no outside help. In essence going back to the 1700s. Ironically, you'd have to destroy all these democrat run cities to get anywhere near close to renewable. That's where the pollution and crap comes from.
But they separate their "recyclables", they buy Organic, drive a new Prius, own the newest iPhone, use minority owned hair salons, donate their lightly used clothes to Africa 🤷♂️🤣
well when you put it that way, I'm all in!
Totally agree! I'll switch to an electric when I can stop charge it up for at least +300 Miles and be back on my way in under 5min. That's what I can do now with a gasoline engine. I really don't care about renewables benefits. I'm just looking at cost, convince and efficiency. If its good for the environment great! Most of it is just BS and making money just like oil companies. They renewables sector just want a piece of the pie.