Terry Blanton wrote:
> Fission is presently dead in the water. There have been no new U.S. plants
> since the 1970s. With cold fusion it will never revive.
Georgia Power is building two new reactors in Waynesboro:
http://southerncompany.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=2044
That's true, but we don't have cold fusion, do we? Not yet anyway. If
the New York Times were to publish on the front page that cold fusion
is real after all, and likely to be commercialized, I expect the
Waynesboro plant would be canceled a month later.
I do not think that cold fusion will succeed unless something as
dramatic as that occurs at the end stage of acceptance by the public.
This fight will only end when cold fusion is on the front page of
every newspaper, or when it is finally, completely, suppressed and forgotten.
The big problem with this plan is that it uses up too much fresh
water, which is in short supply where the plant is being built.
Nuclear power plants built on the shoreline or in the islands
offshore would be a better deal. All the big Japanese nuclear plants
are built on the shore and use seawater cooling as far as I know.
They have gigantic pipes running out to sea so what else could it be
for? Yup. That's what various sources confirm. Incidentally, the
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, the world's largest, is back on line after
the 2007 earthquake. Apparently it was also shut down by an attack of
jellyfish in 1999:
<http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200511/000020051105A0365562.php>http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200511/000020051105A0365562.php
Jellyfish are everywhere in sea around Japan because of overfishing
and the destruction of the seacoast with concrete boondoggles.
Japanese overfishing is also the major contributing cause of the
Somalian piracy, by the way. Big Japanese corporations have just
about finished laying waste the ecosystem in Japan, so now they are
going around the world devastating the ecosystems and wrecking
people's lives, and the Japanese government does not lift a finger to
stop them. They have caused far more harm and expense than the
pirates whose livelihood they destroyed.
If it were not for cold fusion I would be in favor of the southern
company's initiative. Despite my reservations about fission power I
think it is a lot better than coal or natural gas, and there is no
potential wind power in Georgia as far as I know. Perhaps there is
some offshore.
Some people are surprised that the Obama administration supports this
initiative, and also offshore drilling, but I knew that it would
because I read Obama's book. Obama is more conservative than his
critics portray him to be.
- Jed
