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eumesmo · 06-22-2009, 05:15 PM

Simple, the merits of electric cars are wholly dependent on the form electricity is produced, otherwise electric cars only helps the coal industry, which produces more CO2 than oil.

The only reason US nuclear plants produce so much plutonium is that such method was chosen for strategic reasons, which in turn catapulted said technology ahead of all others. That is NOT the status of nuclear technology. After recycling, waste can be reduced to as much as 5% of previous figures.

I don't understand the nuclear scare, what I see are dangerous substances being produced ALL the time, and we don't have the infrastructure and even if we did, and energy is too expensive to do anything about it.

06-22-2009, 05:15 PM	#64
eumesmo Connoisseur Posts: 69 Karma: 272 Join Date: May 2006 Device: Sony Reader	Simple, the merits of electric cars are wholly dependent on the form electricity is produced, otherwise electric cars only helps the coal industry, which produces more CO2 than oil. The only reason US nuclear plants produce so much plutonium is that such method was chosen for strategic reasons, which in turn catapulted said technology ahead of all others. That is NOT the status of nuclear technology. After recycling, waste can be reduced to as much as 5% of previous figures. I don't understand the nuclear scare, what I see are dangerous substances being produced ALL the time, and we don't have the infrastructure and even if we did, and energy is too expensive to do anything about it.