freediver - solar power can be generated during the day, stored to be used at peak times.
Solar chimneys are a good effective idea.

freediver wrote on Aug 29^th, 2007 at 4:38pm:


would it not be like a battery and if solar is free from the sun , where does the high price arguement come in, once installed i mean.

Solar stores energy for later use .

Keithy -  That is roughly of how I see it too.

I'm assume the peak poutput for a solar chimney is during the peak solar collecting hours.
Prob about 10 am - 4 pm would give good power. Pure guesswork here.
Power stored during that time can be used later at peak hours.
During summer peak usage is during those hours, during winter it is at night.

In uranium they do not consider the cost of uranium, or that there is a limited supply of it, the high maintenance cost of the plants, the massive costs of closing it down, no consideration given to any "failures" during its life, or the disposal of exhausted uraniujm afterwards.

Solar powers basically free, once the system set up. Be ok to have many smaller ones placed locally.
Could almost make them portable !!!

I just see renewables having seemingly higher start up costs, then basically no costs.
Nuclear is still high start up costs, then really expensive the longer it goes.
When it is closed down, massively expensive.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Aug 30^th, 2007 at 9:51am:



The supply of Uranium being limited is not a well established fact, is it?

Because if it is, I can tell you most people are not aware of it being so.

Are the masses being manipulated?

Are the masses being manipulated?

Must be all one big conspiracy theory...the top end of town is looking to stick it to the little man. Go get em Keithy. You could probably take Mantra along as your PR hack 


...so many idiots, so little time

Sprintcyclist wrote on Aug 30^th, 2007 at 9:23pm:



They are too rough.

I know I don't have too many facts, myself, at times but to fight this anti-Nuclear battle we need to keep a tight perimeter which includes not asserting things that are not true.

True or not...I really don't know...but I suspect it is not. I welcome that news that it is but I have not heard that confirmed on a wide consensus...like the newspapers of the world for instance. We are talking about Nuclear Power that currently supplies 16% of the worlds electricity and if it were to run out any time soon you don't think it would be front-page news.....*whoah!*

The reasoning is because as the demand increases so will the search and the search for Uranium has not begun as akin as it has/did for oil.

Therefore my anti-Nuclear arguments never rest on the un-availability of Uranium until I see hard evidence: of which is never seen, mind you.

It is suspicious but the game is what the game is.

It is a war of attrition with these guys. Business is business but BIG BUSINESS______________:

%#!@!

You're not a member of the CEC are you? I've seen their 'newspaper' a few times and they always come across as slightly unhinged. The article you linked to has some rather absurd claims about evidence that Howard's father was involved in some kind of fascist group. I feel stupider for reading most of it now. They launched into a lenthy rant about fascism and their own version of history. They just forgot to mention what the actual evidence is. I suspect their strategy is to lay on the lunatic theories so thickly that people forget to ask for the evidence that kicked off the rant.