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The Waste to energy converter using plasma technology that I was talking about is technology that is more or less secretly based right now. The only reason I know is that my dad is heading the business part of the company. One such plant has already been built, and it's proven to work. Once the copyright laws have been thoroughly taken care of, because basic copyright is really quite insufficient to for the magnitude of protection an technology like this needs, then the selling will begin. I wasn't told where the first plan was build, but there is already plans to take over about 12 contracts in the US, offers to fund the construction of a converter in china. The big one will be when toronto, with its legendary waste problem contracts a facility. The whole thing is supposed to be released in June of this year, I beleive, then facilities will be constructed and plugged into the grid faster than you can imagine.
PS this will own nuclear power out of the industry. Think 6 cents per KWH versus this machines 2 cents per KWH plus getting rid of waste, not creating it. |
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Tokamaks are good, but that is just another kind of fusion reactor. There is another that uses electromagnetism to contain the reaction, and that it what has actually worked.
Yes, we all know that a nuclear fusion reactor would be SO much better than a nuclear fission reactor, but there are a few reasons why: There are already a good amount of fusion reactors out there, for scientific purposes. The point at which the fusion reactor is self-sufficient is called the sustained burn. They have been able to get just barely underneath that point. In the next 6 to 8 years, they are building one that WILL pass sustained burn, and acutally get extra electricity from it. It was going to be built in either Japan or France. But anyway, the person who said, "What about steam?" was actually right, they are using water to cool the electromagnets. The steam goes into a steam engine, which is where the electricity is made. The water is split. The Oxygen is let go, and the Hydrogen goes straight into the middle of the fusion reactor. That all gets fused into helium, which breaks apart: * electrons into the current that helps supply the electromagnets * protons and neutrons get absorbed into a lithium shield. Which is the only thing. But that is all contained by the electromagnets, which heats up the water. SO YOU PUT IN: Heavy water (an extra neutron on the hydrogen atom) Lithium YOUR ONLY BY-PRODUCT: Radioactive Lithium This means you dont have to bring in something radioactive to the plant, such as uranium. You still have to take something radioactive out, but the radioactive lithium is much less dangerous than what fission plants take out. |
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That still doesn't help us one bit. So we finally have a sustained burn in 8 years. Then we have 12-22 years to make it efficient enough for commercial use. Then we have 10-20 years of phasing it into the market, making the plants reliable, and making people accept them. Then finally in 50 years we have fusion plants becoming dominant in our society. We can't wait for that to possibly happen. Oil and Coal are poisoning us now, oil is running out, and we have a choice. We can change now and get a solid 45+ years out of fission energy, or we can poison ouselves daily and slowly die while we wait for our future whatever to arrive. We can not afford to wait that long. The same ideas have been bouncing around for decades, and every time people have been saying, "Wait just a bit longer. <Instert "Perfect" Energy Source> will be here in just a few years!" If we completely convert to fission-based nuclear energy now, then we will have a stable, safe system set up that will last us, guaranteed, until we develop that better system.
Can you tell me why we shouldn't convert to a system that will give us several billion years to find the perfect energy system? Why should we stick with a system we know is collapsing, one that is poisoning our people, our land, and our society when we have a better choice? All these energy systems people keep promising will not be here soon. We have several decades, maybe even centuries to wait before we have a better choice than fission-based nuclear power. Now is the perfect time to change to an energy system to last us until the world is blown asunder, or, if you so believe, last us until the "perfect" system is availible. Either way, nuclear power is the choice to make now, and it will fit seamlessly with any choices we make later. Oil and coal wait for no man and do their harm every single day we wait. |
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