The half-life of the plutonium fuel that is still burning beneath the surface of the reactor has a half-life of 250,000 years. To this day Pripyat is a ghost town.
Nuclear energy comes with the serious risk of meltdown, bunkering toxic bi-product, and cancer causing power-plant emissions to local areas. To this day, we have companies still creating new nuclear powerplants and we rely heavily on nuclear power to provide electricity to our cities.
Focus on greener energy alternatives and stopping the production of new nuclear powerplants is a choice everyone has to make in their local areas.
In the short-term, nuclear provides a big bang for the buck and potentially limitless energy. Green alternatives are in their infancy and provide much lower production of energy, moving over to greener energy would also call for a serious reduction in energy consumption.
In the long-run, nuclear energy will stockpile barrels and barrels of toxic waste that can't be disposed or recycled and the probability for meltdown increases over time. Green alternatives will become cheaper to produce, more efficient and utilizing natural sustainable energy sources like geothermal, waterfalls, wind and solar.
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Just an article I found surfing the web on moon colonization.
Washington, April 22 (ANI): Eminent scientist Stephen Hawking has called for a massive investment in establishing colonies on the Moon and Mars, arguing that the world should devote about 10 times as much as 0.25% of its financial resources to space.
According to a report in New Scientist, Hawking expressed his views at George Washington University in Washington, DC, US, on the occasion of NASAs 50th anniversary.
In his speech, Hawking focused on near-term possibilities, backing NASAs goals of returning astronauts to the Moon by 2020 and sending humans to Mars soon after that.
The Moon is a good place to start because it is close by and relatively easy to reach, said Hawking. The Moon could be a base for travel to the rest of the solar system, he added.
Mars would be the obvious next target, with its abundant supplies of frozen water, and the tantalising possibility that life may have been present there in the past, according to Hawking.
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Moon Colonization
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It happens.. my previous blog session timed out, so here's an abbreviated version of what I was going to post:
Hybrid cars source!
Hybrid Cars
Check out the top three sedans, half the mileage of gasoline cars and going for about 30,000$ CAD, average power is about 130HP.
Hydrogen cars are being market tested, the most interesting points with hydrogen fueling is where to fuel? In the entire US there are around 50 liquid hydrogen fueling stations. Honda's solution is a Home Energy Station (HES) fuel from home, plus heat and power the home too!
Home Energy System
If going the traditional gasoline powered route, try to get a just-enough-power engine and check the fuel economy on the vechile. Most people only require a V4-cylinder engine for the city, fuel economy ratings from V4 to V6 engine is like 50% more.
But just on fuel economy, we are looking at two cars, same size engine and cabin space, about 2000$ difference in pricing, but the mileage is a difference of 4L/100KM. Big difference?
example:
average travel in a year is 15,000KM, say gas prices are about 1.30/L.
9L/100KM vs 13L/100KM
1,350L/year vs 1,950L/year
$1,755/year vs $2,535/year
difference of $780/year
Fuel economy ratings are just as important as the sticker price when it comes to savings.
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