Nuclear Power - debate / poll

**drivesafe** · 2nd March 2007, 11:31 PM

Folks, there are alternatives that do not have the potential dangers that nuclear power has so why the push for nuclear power.

Again, in this present push by Howard, the only beneficiaries will be Howard's mates and even that is in the very short term.

As for nuclear power being non pollutant, Nuclear power stations produce far more heat per kilowatt of power than does a coal fired power station and heat of this magnitude is pollution and a nuclear power station uses between 20 and 83% MORE WATER than a comparable sized coal fired station does and like we have heaps of water to spare NOT and this info is from the federal governments recently released paper on the proposals for the use of nuclear power here in Australia.

MT · 2nd March 2007, 11:31 PM

Originally Posted by dobbo

Then he got hung up by his goolies in the town square. You forgot to mention how many trains Mussolini's network had on it.

Good point.

Guess it was one hell of a micro-managed train.

**D110V8D** · 2nd March 2007, 11:35 PM

Originally Posted by p38arover

They certainly do. Especially when one gets killed.

There's about one death per week on NSW rail - it doesn't get into the news 'cos a number are suicides and they don't want people emulating them. A death really stuffs the network.

You'd be surprised how many people fall down between the platform and the train (and don't get injured).

Ron

You dont get dead in a yard.

I have recovered a friend from between train carriages......drunk.......and would have been killed......and would have delayed the service!

**p38arover** · 2nd March 2007, 11:36 PM

Originally Posted by MT

Old jungle saying "he who types fast and does not spell check should not quote others similar mistakes".

It's called Muphry's Law.

**moose** · 2nd March 2007, 11:36 PM

Originally Posted by MT

I don't. Do you?

Nup, that's why I'm researching my posts....

Originally Posted by MT

The point I am making is that just because something sounds or looks credible does not mean that it is.

Propaganda in wartime looks credible to the target audience- it is designed to. That does not mean that it is.

Should we trust because someone has taken the time to post it, so it must be all ridgy didge? If that is the case, I have a friend with some money stuck in a bank account in Nigeria.........

I reiterate. There have been numerous instances of blatant lies being posted on Wikipedia and staying there for protracted periods. Take it all with a pinch of salt.

So I should believe you instead of 60 different quoted texts

MT · 2nd March 2007, 11:45 PM

Originally Posted by moose

Nup, that's why I'm reasearching my posts....

So I should believe you instead of 60 different quoted texts

Definitely not, I know two tenths of #$%all about it (Nuclear power that is). That is why I have not made any post about the facts of it.

My comment was about who could we trust to run and supervise it. I would want to do a lot more research (like you are trying) before I formed any opinion about the relative merits of the nuclear case. I guess that the point I was trying to make is that there is a lot of 'opinion' on the net (including wikipedia and , heavens forbid, our beloved AULRO) that occasionally poses as fact.

On another note - damn you Ron, I am typing really slowly now for fear of another spelling correction lesson!

**p38arover** · 2nd March 2007, 11:49 PM

Originally Posted by MT

On another note - damn you Ron, I am typing really slowly now for fear of another spelling correction lesson!

I can't install ieSpell on this work machine and the keyboard is really woeful and it's easy to hit wrong keys.

Ron

**moose** · 2nd March 2007, 11:49 PM

Agreed, who to run and supervise such a facility would be quite a debate in itself.

**p38arover** · 2nd March 2007, 11:55 PM

I shall have to ask my brother-in-law for his views. He is a nuclear physicist and worked for many years at Lucas Heights.

Ron

**shorty943** · 2nd March 2007, 11:58 PM

Originally Posted by MT

On another note - damn you Ron, I am typing really slowly now for fear of another spelling correction lesson!

Could everybody type slower please. I can't read that fast.

Nice list of researchable information MT. Take some time (see above

), but, as I posted earlier, the more we learn the better of we will be in the long run.
Really not in love with the prospect, but needs must be met. It may be, my theory on the the worlds oil pockets is nearly right, and we wont need to worry.

But, I am sometimes a pessimist, and the outcome is not nice in this case.

Shorty.

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