Nuke power rush - costly, pointless, military poison

[kookomula]

"In the desert, just across the Mediterranean sea, is a vast source of energy that holds the promise of a carbon-free, nuclear-free electrical future for the whole of Europe, if not the world.....

Two German scientists, Dr Gerhard Knies and Dr Franz Trieb, calculate that covering just 0.5% (?) of the world's hot deserts with a technology called concentrated solar power (CSP) would provide the world's entire electricity needs, with the technology also providing desalinated water to desert regions as a valuable byproduct, as well as air conditioning for nearby cities."

Full article :

www.guardian.co.uk/business/2006/nov/27/renewableenergy.environment


"CSP works best in hot desert. There are hot deserts within 3,000 miles of 90% of the worlds population eg North and South America, North and South Africa, Australia, India, Middle East etc.

"New power stations are being built in the US that are projected to be able to deliver electricity at 2.5p per kWh, which is half the price of nuclear. Nuclear is projected to cost 5p per kWh but probably coming in closer to 8p. Unlike nuclear, which can only survive with huge public subsidy, CSP has the capability of unsubsidised competitiveness and unlike nuclear, it is carbon-free, clean and safe. It uses solar energy, which is free, renewable and infinite in supply. CSP has none of the unresolved dangerous waste issues of nuclear, nor would it be at risk from terrorist attack.

Bush and Blair have shown no interest in promoting a strategy for using CSP for energy and climate security, despite evidence showing that the resource is huge and that the technology could deliver energy cost effectively. In 2000, on being elected the Bush Administration requested the termination of CSP, despite the success of established CSP power stations over the last 15 years."

Full article:

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/feb/06/thesecretsecureenergysolu t

New Report Finds that Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Could Amass up to $200 Billion in Investment Globally for Installations Through 2020

© Business Wire 2008

http://www.pr-inside.com/new-report-finds-that-concentrating-solar-pow er-csp-could-amass-up-to-200-billion-in-investment-globally-for-instal la-r513895.htm


1000 new nuclear power stations, Gordon Brown, I want to take my computer and bash him over the head with it!

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[TetraGrammatonCleric]

The powers that be seem to love nuclear power- having to store the waste that we have no room for never seems to phase them, or the radiation aspect, or the possibility that in an earthquake it could all be exposed to the air. Yeah nuclear power is sooo good!