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Post by graybeard on Nov 5, 2011 16:35:44 GMT -6
This program has been on Bloomberg tv a year now, main sponsor Chesapeake Energy, but editorially independent.
This week was primarily about spent fuel rod storage. Yucca Mountain is too hot, at least politically. Carlsbad, NM, has WIPP, a test/demonstration facility that stores nuke waste in salt half a mile underground, with plenty of room for all our thousands of tons of rods. The dry salt encroaches and envelops the canisters at the rate of 3 inches a year. The only drawback is difficult retrieval for possible processing in the future. The NIMBYs are ok with it.
The mealy-mouthed head of the NRC says they haven't studied WIPP enough to comment on it! WTF are they doing? WIPP has been in business a number of years. Our problems are indeed more policital than technical.
The last part today was about Commie China's big appetite for energy. They predict over the next 25 years our demand for transportation energy will increase just 14%, while CC will increase 250%.
Sure enough, they've bought into the Canada tar sands and the Keystone XL pipeline. The US pipeline will be just a risky, unprofitable conduit for energy to the Commies. The story about shipping the tar to underused refineries in Houston is just BS.
GB
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Post by graybeard on Nov 5, 2011 23:30:47 GMT -6
Paraphrasing, MLK: I have been to the beach, and I have seen the tsunami coming..
GB
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