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Post by AztecWilliam on May 28, 2013 22:05:48 GMT -8
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Post by azteccc on May 28, 2013 22:16:07 GMT -8
Nuclear is not the future. We could and should be doing a lot more as to not fall too far behind in renewables.
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Post by aztec70 on May 29, 2013 13:42:51 GMT -8
Nuclear is not the future. We could and should be doing a lot more as to not fall too far behind in renewables. Why the hell isn't nuclear being used? I've been hearing this all my life. If people hadn't gotten in the way, we'd hardly be using any oil at all right now. It's windmills that are not our future. What do you do with the waste, John? It is poison for thousands of years. When there is a total system failure, like in Russia and Japan, the countryside has to be evacuated for generations. If I have to choose between oil spills and Fukushima, I will take the oil spills. |
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Post by War-Ztec on May 29, 2013 19:36:27 GMT -8
When I was serving in the military's Air Force branch of the Department of Defense, I had questions concerning our military might, the future and our continued lead in our technological advances allowing us to safeguard our way of life and our responsibility to maintain Democracy worldwide. It was at this time of my young life and career that I was privy to something I had heretofore no knowledge of; the U.S. Military is 50 years ahead in technology compared to the civilian sector. The spy plane, SR 71 blackbird, as an example was mothballed as a front line information gathering platform and seemingly was not replaced with anything comparable or more advanced in nature as the government would have us believe. Don't even think it. More than half of what you read concerning our military or technology is geared towards misinformation and/or the divergence of facts towards unfriendly eyes. If the papers say we are behind in nuclear technology understand that it has perhaps served its lifespan not unlike the SR 71 and that nuclear power is not the be all end all and our government is steering us towards something bigger and better. Why isn't it yet on line? The technology is far beyond what we are ready to divulge to the world without causing more headaches or leaking to unfriendly eyes our capabilities and compromising our national security or both.
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Post by aztecwin on May 30, 2013 10:51:42 GMT -8
When I was serving in the military's Air Force branch of the Department of Defense, I had questions concerning our military might, the future and our continued lead in our technological advances allowing us to safeguard our way of life and our responsibility to maintain Democracy worldwide. It was at this time of my young life and career that I was privy to something I had heretofore no knowledge of; the U.S. Military is 50 years ahead in technology compared to the civilian sector. The spy plane, SR 71 blackbird, as an example was mothballed as a front line information gathering platform and seemingly was not replaced with anything comparable or more advanced in nature as the government would have us believe. Don't even think it. More than half of what you read concerning our military or technology is geared towards misinformation and/or the divergence of facts towards unfriendly eyes. If the papers say we are behind in nuclear technology understand that it has perhaps served its lifespan not unlike the SR 71 and that nuclear power is not the be all end all and our government is steering us towards something bigger and better. Why isn't it yet on line? The technology is far beyond what we are ready to divulge to the world without causing more headaches or leaking to unfriendly eyes our capabilities and compromising our national security or both. I am not that familiar with Nuke Power, but what you say is true in the area of Weapons and other Military Electronics as well. |
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Post by War-Ztec on May 30, 2013 12:00:30 GMT -8
Most of what we see and use in our daily lives have been transferred over from our governments military research and developments. What we have behind closed doors is probably close to the difference between a model A and a 2014 Cheverolet Corvette Stingray.
It's not an accident when you see so many technologies being bandied about by foreign militaries that so closely resemble ours. They've reverse engineered what they got their hands on, by nefarious means from us. The U.S. is ahead in most facets of technology have no fear. We just don't see most of it until years have passed and for good reason.
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Post by 01aztecgrad on May 31, 2013 10:40:51 GMT -8
As long as coal and natural gas are cheap, nuclear isn't viable without government subsidies. The new nuclear plants in Georgia are only being built because the government guaranteed over $8b in loans for Southern Co.
I don't have a problem with government subsidies since I think nuclear power is preferable to coal, but it sure seems like the people most supportive of nuclear power would otherwise balk at the idea of the feds propping up non viable technologies.
As far as falling behind the rest of the world in nuclear technology, that's pure fantasy. The research going on at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos is decades ahead of China and Korea. Although considering they are part of the department of uhm, uhm, uhm, oops, they probably don't really do anything important.
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