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- Ok Ok, I understand us using our aquifer up, but Las Vegas, Phoenix, and much of New Mexico, Los Angeles are all in the DESERT. If water isn't brought in they ALL would die pretty quickly. This is DUMB, plain and simple. If you live there move now while you can still get something for your property. Ever been to a ghost town. Vegas will be one.
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- Wind is not a baseline energy source. It is sporadic and always will be.
And, the energy it currently takes to build and assemble a wind turbine is more than the turbine will ever produce. Until that problem is solved, wind is not a large-scale viable alternative.
HOWEVER, it is still good to use wind turbines anyway to a limited extent, in that it will never be "perfected" if we don't use the technology and shake out the bugs. - Reply to this comment
- noloyalisti,
Storage is only a problem for those who *want* it to be a problem. Funny that the French have little issues with storage. They get over 80% of their power from nuclear.
One of the smart things they do - which we don't - is to recycle their used fuel. We have a single stream fuel cycle that uses it just once. Yet, over 90% of the energy is still present in the "used" fuel. The French reprocess it and re-use it, getting dozens of "lives" from the fuel.
That alone would reduce the "waste" issue dramatically. And what is left CAN be safely stored in dry, geologically stable areas. All it takes is the political will to do it.
People who screech hysterically about the "dangers" of storing used fuel are ignorant of the true facts. Spent fuel can and is stored safely all over the world. Only in America is it stored "on site" at nuclear reactors because of over-blown false beliefs about it's safety. - Reply to this comment
- pdx dave, as long as you don't ignore the problem of what to do with the nuclear waste, that has always been THE issue. The technology to safely store it is the most expensive part so as long as you include that into the price.
Sunlight and wind and other such decentralized power production is the way to go. No chemicals, no dangerous and polluting mining operations and no global climate change effects. But then you can't control the supply and rape and pillage the people for it. - Reply to this comment
- We need to do something about our wasteful consumerist lifestyle. The world cannot hold out much longer. With global climate change rapidly advancing on us, we don't have much time.
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- Man the time is right for another tax. Tax that water this is the chance to really put it to the people. Maybe the big earthquake will come before the water runs out and get rid of the dried up west coast.
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- It is sad that the American way has become to deny the need for conservation and environmental protection due to politics. One day the chickens will come home to roost.
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- 70% of residential water use is outside as well, watering the lawn primarily. Considering an <a href="http://www.newgrass.com>artificial lawn like NewGrass</a> when you still want the outdoor living space a lawn provides, without the water consumption, is a good consideration.
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- Nuclear power is both clean (the greenest power source with zero carbon emissions, able to utilize existing refined fuel sources for hundreds of years), and the only viable means of desalinating large amounts of water.
The brain-washed masses believe nuclear is dangerous, but it is hands down the safest and cleanest power source. - Reply to this comment
- As I recall, we aren't losing water, it's just going elsewhere. Water evaporates and leaves to other places. In the OLD days, everyone in the family had alcohol for every meal. Not enough to get them a buzz or even drunk, but enough to get them by. The reason for this was that the water was often too dirty to drink without getting sick or dying. We can get by, we'll find other ways to quench our thirst.
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