From http://Slashdot.org Roland Piquepaille writes "As you might know, I enjoy big numbers. So it's just natural that I was attracted by this news release from the University of Utah, " Bad Mileage: 98 tons of plants per gallon. " "A staggering 98 tons of prehistoric, buried plant material is required to produce each gallon of gas
[Joanne Schoenwald 23/10/03] I come from a model of total ‘idealism’. So what I am saying here comes from my ideal world. I understand that we will never achieve the ideal, but if we aim for it, we might get close to it. I am not a fan of ‘space dumping’. I think it somehow lulls people into a false sense of relief and creates an ‘out of mind out of sight’ mentality. Space is not our wasteland. Just as the ocean is not our wasteland. Launching waste into outer space is fraught with
Just read this article about Toshiba trying to sell a small & cheap nuclear reactor to be used in the Alaskan Wilderness. From core plexus writes "This article describes a proposal from a Japanese corporation that wants to thrust the Interior Alaska community of Galena into international limelight by donating a new, unconventional electr
[Iain Robertson]: The cost of space launches is still prohibitively high – and is still the biggest polluter of the upper atmosphere (solid rocket fuel, specifically, is a rather effective greenhouse gas & acid rain catalyst). To launch the many tonnes of nuclear fuel skyward would cost both financially and environmentally. Vitrification (embedding the waste in an inert silica material with a decomposition half-life twice that of the stored material) and burial of this waste at se
[Abbas Hooshmand 21/10/03] This is a controversial question: News are around that the U.S. is going to start expansion of her Nuclear Power program in the light of much safer new reactor designs. It is also said that the Australian Government is going to stop shyness from discussing the issue and there might be a nuclear energy program in the hindsight. Even if the new reactor designs are much safer than previous designs, the main worry for environment remains to be the disposal of nuclear wast
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