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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Take the small billets, lower them down into a dry salt mine 10,000 feet down, and recast them into a bigger billet. (That was going to be done in Nevada USA, but the anti nukes had a hissy fit.) Any civilization able to dig down to 10,000 feet to get at them will have the brains to know what to do with them.
Gamma ray are electromagnetic radiation, just like sunlight. Lead blocks them the same as a rock blocks sunlight....
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Should use technology and brains then to harness geotherma.
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Originally Posted by eumesmo
Beside nuclear, the only thing of real promise I have noticed lately was http://www.coolearthsolar.com/ .
I can't see a way around the building of huge energy storage facilities ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage ), which would enable nuclear reactors to constantly run at near maximum capacity at very little extra fuel expenditure, and make the use of the other energy alternatives, solar, tidal, wind, at all viable. |
In Quebec we use hydro power and the government is installing wind generators. No coal, no oil.