Fusion - full steam ahead
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) just got France as the host country (after a year and a half of political wrangling over location) and will proceed!! This is awesome. Fusion is a must for Earth to thrive long term.
I must say that Greenpeace opposition to this project is quite misguided and shortsighted. It is a shame that an organization dedicated to a cleaner Earth is opposed to future technologies which hold promise to solve most of our energy needs and at the same time drastically reduce green house emissions from fossil fuels. Ideally, a boundless energy source would usher a new era of prosperity and peace for all! Go FUSION!!
I must say that Greenpeace opposition to this project is quite misguided and shortsighted. It is a shame that an organization dedicated to a cleaner Earth is opposed to future technologies which hold promise to solve most of our energy needs and at the same time drastically reduce green house emissions from fossil fuels. Ideally, a boundless energy source would usher a new era of prosperity and peace for all! Go FUSION!!
posted by z @ 2:41 PM
20 Comments:
At 3:06 PM,
z said…
Does anyone have any idea of why my sidebar is screwed up? The same thing happened with other templates as well. Any comments appreciated!
At 5:25 PM,
z said…
Strangeness. So it works for individual pages, but not for the main page.
At 5:48 PM,
z said…
ok, ignore my previous comments. with a minor edit i got it to display the sidebar even though it's a bit off now. oh well... it's good enough for now.
At 5:52 PM,
z said…
and then i clipped the number of posts on the main page and everything started working again. go figure.
At 5:55 PM,
z said…
...and i'll be talking to myself. oh, oh, oh...
At 5:56 PM,
z said…
wow, this is a popular topic. *lol*
At 7:27 PM,
nell said…
Hah! And I thought there had been 6 comments already and was all excited ;) So why does Greenpeace oppose it? I would assume it's a for a 'valid' reason? (Or is "hope" the better word here?)
At 7:28 PM,
nell said…
Ps - everything looks fine on my browser
At 9:18 PM,
z said…
Greenpeace opposes it because they'd rather see the $10bn euros spent on building renewable energy plants in Europe right now. It's an extremely shortsighted view. The world's energy needs have been growing steadily and they will only continue to do so as countries across the world industrialize. We need to invest money into forward looking technologies that will address this planet's energy needs far into the future.
At 9:19 PM,
z said…
yeah, everything seems to work OK now. i had a large number of posts on the main page and it seems to have interfered with the sidebar. once i clipped the number of posts to 10 everything returned to normal. as long as it works...
At 9:46 AM,
angimally said…
hey, it's the polar opposite of my page colors!
At 11:13 AM,
liz said…
yeah ... sometimes i disagree with greenpeace. it makes me sad, though. i want to agree with greenpeace. i like them.
At 1:55 PM,
nell said…
*giggle*
blue is for boys! pink is for girls!
[I'm not going to even get into how much I disagree with that statement...]
Anyhoo. Yeah. Liz, I'm the same way.
At 8:45 AM,
angimally said…
renewable resources? um...isn't hydrogen in nearly endless supply? most common element in the universe...umm...hello!
At 10:43 AM,
Anonymous said…
I think part of the bigger issues for environmental groups is what to do with the nuclear waste that is generated? Stuff is highly toxis and lasts a really really long time
At 3:33 PM,
nell said…
good question, matt...
At 6:32 PM,
Anonymous said…
I don't know whether fusion is a must or not and I doubt a bit, that fusion will become feasible. At least in the next decades. I think it's more important to work on saving as much energy as possible and to use more biodiesel and similar fuels. Further I think there're some problems with fusion power plants too: who will afford to built a commercial one and what happens, if one has to be taken off the grid. I expect fusion power plants will have a tremendously high power output and to have a backup available if one fails (it's just too centralized)...
Nevertheless I think ITER is important as well as working on fusion, because even if it may not give us an useable solution, it may yield to new materials and technologies.
At 2:19 AM,
z said…
So I went on vacation and when I returned I was pleasantly surprised to find that this topic generated some interest. Thanks to everyone for their posting their thoughts and opinions.
At 2:20 AM,
z said…
Matt - fusion promises to generate much less (if any) nuclear residue than fission.
At 2:24 AM,
z said…
carsten - thanks for contributing. you make a very good point i didn't even consider - with fusion power plants centralization of power generation might become an unsuspected problem. ultimately though we'll still have plenty of "old" power plants as fusion is getting phased in. ideally by the time fusion becomes our primary source of power technology will have improved enough to make them "affordable". it should work like that because the prohibitive costs will most likely prevent mass switch to fusion power at first.
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