Nuclear Power is dangerous
Hogwash says my American Texas Millionaire mate Chuck. He says, In the US there have been more people killed in Teddy Kennedy’s car than by nuclear accidents.
Fair and mildly funny comment. The only real problem the world has had with nuclear power is Chernobyl but that was brought to you by the people who make Lada Nivas…need I say any more.
Nuclear Power has spawned a religious movement that will never accept it even in the face of stats that say it’s not the bogey man they wish it was. It can produce power and we need an alternative to coal…quickly. Wind farms and solar are not quite there yet and anyway, wind farms seems to have spawned another religion with a parrot being elevated up the evolutionary tree to just above humans. The human need for power being subordinated by the one-in- million chance of a parrot having a senior moment and flying into something he could normally see from three kilometres away.
It’s all rather bemusing really
The ALP are confused (it has ever been thus) about the issue. In the middle of discussing throwing out their 3 mines policy Beasley says they are against Australia going nuclear.
Or. We can mine it but not sell it or use it…put it in the bank maybe?
Maybe there would be less confusion if they told Anthony Albanese to shut the hell up for a week or two.
Personally I think storage of spent uranium is not a problem but then my backyard is too small to do it there. Other people are heavily into the NIMBY approach to any suggestion but that looses its value when your backyard is three times the size of Texas.Australia has the political and geographic stability and tech-know how to handle the issue safely and make billions out of doing so. We could make billions out of value adding yellow cake thought to enriched uranium as well but let’s get smarter one step at a time.
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I find a certain karma in the decision to stop the windfarm because of the threat to the parrot.
The greenies have used such arguments for years to stop any sort of development taking place and now when their pet project – a taxpayer subsidised eyesore of a wind farm is stopped for the same sort of reason they are only too happy to use themselves when it suits them, they get very upset.
Funny as ….
Off subject but within your area of expertise…
From a comment at Tim Blairs site.
“I wonder if the Kiwis have sorted out their propensity to leave forward scouts lying wounded in the bush for the enemy to torture, castrate, skin and murder, whilst the rest of the section buggers off back to base to clean their undies…
Posted by murph on 2006 05 25 at 09:52 PM ”
Sounds like VN.
Any clue about this?
Rick,
No, not yet. Will see if Murph answers my comment.
Any person in favour of wind farms has clearly been no closer to one than a photo.
Quite apart from the fact that they look ridiculous there is a suprisingly loud NEVER-ENDING blade noise that will eventually drive you nuts.
To enjoy this noise in your own home simply take one of the many small digital recorders on the market to your nearest wind farm and press “Record.”
Never mind if the windfarm is on private property…a boundary fence within a few hundred metres will be adequate to understand the impact.
Take the recorder home and play the recording back on your home stereo.
Play it night and day non-stop for ,say, a week.
If already into self-flagellation….maybe a month or more.
You are now eligible to vote on windfarms.