…dro or simple cycle natural gas plants. Displacing hydro does not directly reduce any fossil fuel consumption or emissions. Installing systems that lead to a greater need for simple cycle – and far less thermally efficient – gas turbines can significantly reduce any advantages from emissions reductions or fuel consumption. Renewable energy advocates do not like to discuss or quantify the financial and environmental costs of extending the grid to t…
Search Results for: Reduce reuse recycle
Nuclear energy makes a cameo appearance in Jeff Gibbs’s Planet of the Humans
…e industries. That path will end – whether we like it or not – with either reduced prosperity, reduced human population, or both. 2. We can reject the lessons we have been carefully taught by people with vested interests and develop a truly different kind of power source. Nuclear fission is here and available, but rich and powerful interests see it as a serious threat that must be fought, ignored or both. But fission opposition backers are billion…
Russia is a primary beneficiary of well-marketed, illogical effort to slow nuclear energy
…decades while producing emission-free power. Remember the mantra – reduce, reuse, recycle. For a true environmentalist, throwing useful resources away violates a fundamental philosophy. I have to get back to the main point. When operating nuclear plants are illogically forced to shut down as a result of an overreaction to a natural disaster that destroyed vulnerably located plants but did not cause any negative health effects, the natural gas indu…
There are three Superfuels – uranium, thorium and plutonium
…1974 article from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists titled “Plutonium Recycle: The Fateful Step”.) Instead of being dominated by the fuel suppliers, the fission power business is dominated by people power. It is a power source that rewards the people with the biggest brains, the highest integrity, the greatest patience, and the best leadership. It is not a technology that showers incredible quantities of wealth onto people who are lucky enoug…
Columnists declare nuclear to be uncompetitive
…nergy remains in used fuel assemblies. We’ve even found a few good ways to recycle and reuse it that have — so far — been blocked by a few oil & gas dependent governments. The US is included in that group, but changes are afoot. Rod Adams on May 02 2016 I was curious about one of Bob Wallace’s sources — Mycle Schneider — so I did what any internet user would do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycle_Schneider Here is a sample quote from the Book of…
Hydrocarbon-fueled establishment hates idea of plutonium economy
…ck imagination and are not driven by a desire to use innovation to reduce, reuse and recycle valuable material — will require the construction of thousands of machines that turn the heat generated by the destruction process into electricity. He’s right: That fleet of thousands of 600 MW (thermal) waste-to-energy plants will need to run for hundreds of years just to get rid of the material that we have already stockpiled as either depleted uranium…
Solar energy salesman claims nuclear costs twice as much as solar
…R & D has rarely, if ever, been focused on the kinds of improvements that reduce cost. In fact, nearly all of the investments have resulted in additional rules, regulations, and requirements that have increased cost, since the industry is regulated by an entity that demands near perfection, “no matter the cost”. Aside: The phrase in quotes in the previous sentence is from a talk that I heard NRC Chairman Macfarlane give this afternoon at the ANS…
Lightbridge metallic alloy fuel provides upgrade path for LWRs
…fuel assembly. This configuration eliminates the need for spacer grids and reduces flow resistance while still meeting seismic and vibration resistance requirements. 5 x 5 Assembly laid flat. Center element is a control rod guide tube The reduced core flow resistance produces increased reactor coolant flow rate when coolant pumps run at their designed power and speed. With higher coolant flow and constant core differential temperature, more therma…
Kentucky leader wants access to nuclear power and its related jobs
…ry it, making it harder for the eventual time when it will be recycled and reused.) Here is the explanation that he gives when questioned why he is sponsoring the bill: Leeper said there could be an estimated 25 to 30 applications for new nuclear plants within the next three years. Kentucky could make itself more attractive as a potential location to nuclear companies, Leeper said. The state could encourage new investment and try to land new jobs…
Recycling Does Not Necessarily Equal Reprocessing
…ry. There are plenty of other ideas for employing the concepts of “reduce, reuse, and recycle” to get a larger portion of the potential energy out of raw material inputs. Molten salt reactors that use fissile material initiators to convert fertile material into fuel, fast neutron liquid metal reactors, epithermal resonance absorption converter reactors, the DUPIC cycle, and traveling wave reactors that act more like a well managed community fire b…
Successful Alternatives to Fossil Fuel
…o send a note back to the author. Following my personal mantra of “reduce, reuse, and recycle”, I thought I would share that note with you. Ms. Galbraith: Your article titled “Certainties of 1970s Energy Crisis Have Fallen Away” was interesting, but it contained an inaccurate and misleading sentence: “The only alternative to succeed on a large scale, however, has been wind power, and most of that growth did not occur until the past decade.” You me…
Letter from the Editor: Recycling: Practice What You Preach
Recycle, reuse, reduce. These are the watchwords of people who are concerned about reducing the impact that man and his activities have on the world’s natural resources. The ideas that the words embody are logical and can be reasonably applied to making the world a more prosperous place to live. I was introduced to the concepts at a very early age. As a family project we constructed a compost heap that received yard waste and selected kitchen sc…
