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Kileymeister wrote:

hdarken wrote:

coolstuff wrote:

While uranium is a lovely source of energy and yes, it is green (I'd like to point out Canada has the safest reactors out there), it does produce a lot of radioactive waste that we have no way of disposing of for thousands of years, and we have to keep cool to prevent radioactivity. If humanity were to die out in a hundred years, our power plants would go out, our uranium would get warm, out concrete basins would eventually die off, and bam, the Earth is dead.

IMHO, the safest and most effective form of energy is wind.

Wind turbines are expensive too.

Not nearly as much as a nuclear power plant.  Though they produce less energy they are an indefinite resource and very useful.

My stupid town doesn't want wind turbines put in because they don't look nice.  Pfft.

They do look nice, to me...

I remember when the Simpsons got a windmill, from the show.

illusionist wrote:

16Skittles wrote:

illusionist wrote:

They cost 20x more than they will ever save on energy. 

I'd get a miniature nuclear reactor in my house if I were you. 

+1945

nuclear power FTW. People are so afraid because of japan, but its really the most green, efficient form of energy. sure, there's radioactivity, but one fuel rod lasts 5 years, and produces energy worth multiple tons of coal worth of energy. What we need now, is to find out how to safely produce energy from the depleted uranium.

One uranium pellet produces more energy than...

200 truckloads of oil
30 trainloads of coal
50 wind turbines running at 30mph for a month
100 square yards of solar collectors in direct sunlight for two months (not at night!)

...?

It is 100% SAFE

unless

-earthquake (don't build a plant on a fault line! duh!)
-extreme operator error
-sabotage

you guys


now i want to build one

It is overpriced because it is electric. Don't be silly, as you don't come up a massive laptop that's $1.58 or £1.