The Green New Deal

I think the key thing would be to convert aircraft to run on cow flatulence. There's a whole new industry just waiting to be created, the capture, containment, and transportation of Bovine Generated Aviation Propellent. Who says you can't kill one bird with two stones?
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
I'd say the biggest problem with nuclear reactors is that we still don't know how to get rid of the waste.
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Not really. The only way to stretch nuclear fuel reserves far enough to make Nuclear a viable alterative to fossil fuels is to go to 100% breeder reactors that turn materials like Thorium and lower grade uranium etc. These reactors don’t really produce waste the way current reactors do. It all just stays inside the reactor until all the potentially fissionable material is used up. While the resulting waste is still contaminated, there is a lot less and it’s not undergoing radioactive decay to anywhere near the same degree as waste from current reactors.
 
Given how much I hate working, it sounds like my ship has finally come in. Now I can take up the piano, get better at rock climbing, and finally learn to paint. I'll probably do some travel as well. Thank you Ocasio-Cortez!
 
We could do this with clean nuclear power in 10-20 years.

Plus it doesn't take into account the possibility of fusion power being possible in 10-20 years.
 
sir drinks-a-lot said:
Given how much I hate working, it sounds like my ship has finally come in. Now I can take up the piano, get better at rock climbing, and finally learn to paint. I'll probably do some travel as well. Thank you Ocasio-Cortez!
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I'm sure I'll make much more money than you just by keeping my job, though.
 
Mike! said:
I think the key thing would be to convert aircraft to run on cow flatulence. There's a whole new industry just waiting to be created, the capture, containment, and transportation of Bovine Generated Aviation Propellent. Who says you can't kill one bird with two stones?
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Bring back zeppilins!
 
Drewbot said:
We could do this with clean nuclear power in 10-20 years.
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No. Replacing fossil fuels worldwide would require something like 40 000 reactors. Even if you could build that many that quickly, which is impossible in it's own right, they would use up all the global uranium reserves in under a decade. Fuel reprocessing could extend that to ~20 years but the only practical way to fuel that many reactors would be breeder reactors likely burning Thorium.

While there is work ongoing to design such reactors, they are not on the roadmap for production ready reactor designs.
 
theprestige said:
An excellent question. Which of those two activities do you think should come with a guaranteed living wage?
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Both. No one should be forced into labor just to survive. Society has enough resources to make sure everyone has the basics.

How about we rethink the concept of "work"? Instead of "work or die" we work to better ourselves and the world around us?
 
lomiller said:
No. Replacing fossil fuels worldwide would require something like 40 000 reactors. Even if you could build that many that quickly, which is impossible in it's own right, they would use up all the global uranium reserves in under a decade. Fuel reprocessing could extend that to ~20 years but the only practical way to fuel that many reactors would be breeder reactors likely burning Thorium.

While there is work ongoing to design such reactors, they are not on the roadmap for production ready reactor designs.
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So solar, fusion or we're all ******?
 
Apparently the Chernobyle disaster is a plot point in the upcoming Sequel to "Wonder Woman".
 
lomiller said:
No. Replacing fossil fuels worldwide would require something like 40 000 reactors. Even if you could build that many that quickly, which is impossible in it's own right, they would use up all the global uranium reserves in under a decade. Fuel reprocessing could extend that to ~20 years but the only practical way to fuel that many reactors would be breeder reactors likely burning Thorium.

While there is work ongoing to design such reactors, they are not on the roadmap for production ready reactor designs.
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Thanks for the info, I was thinking the GND applied to the US , how many reactors would we need to add to eliminate just electrical generation?
 
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