Seriously thoughtful Will more nuclear power plants be built?

[Sparrow]

I'm not up with all the science regarding climate change.
I've taken the view that I'll know it's serious when population control makes its way on to the agenda.
Until then, it seems that everything else is just tinkering.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by HarryT

When I worked in the UK's nuclear power industry I was in the group which did "risk assessments" of power stations. Earthquakes are one of the things that every plant is built to withstand - even the UK gets significant earthquakes from time to time.

I suppose then that you have read The Leaky Establishment. It seemed like a true description of reality

[Darqref]

Originally Posted by tirsales

To the best of my knowledge it is currently unknown whether we are able to provide said conditions or not: We might not be able to do so ATM, but perhaps next year? Or in ten years? Or in fifty?
Let me phrase it differently: Whats the alternative? We do NOT know whether it will work - so lets just find out.

I just spent my annual weekend at a SF convention, and listened to two of my favorite physicists talk about the current state of fusion. Right now, they can confine the plasma, except that the hydrogen tends to collect at the surface of surrounding walls in a bubble, which bursts, sending the cooler bubble back into the plasma which quenches the fusion. It's a materials problem, not a physics problem. (sorry if I don't convey the information as well as they did....)

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by tompe

I suppose then that you have read The Leaky Establishment. It seemed like a true description of reality

No, I haven't come across that. I'll look it up!

[Krystian Galaj]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

These people will.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/15/s...d-solar-power/

BOb

I wonder if the arrays they use will be big enough to shadow some places on Earth. People who live in those places might not like it.

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj

I wonder if the arrays they use will be big enough to shadow some places on Earth. People who live in those places might not like it.

Chances are that at that distance, and given solar scatter in the atmosphere, Earth-dwellers might not even notice a difference in their shadows, or be able to see the array in the sky even when it is between them and the sun. Besides, they can always be placed in an orbit that will keep them at right angles to the Earth's angle to the Sun (which makes sense... otherwise, they'd be in darkness 50% of their time in orbit).