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LOL, and I suppose the authors of the articel you cited have crystal ball and know exactly what the future is? Long term projections are difficult becsue things change however EIA projections are fairly accurate. The bottom line is there is nothing to replace it without some extraordinary amount of expense, end of discussion.
You don;lt seem to understand, what I'm asking you is how they arrived at that number. Nobody has "died by coal" on their death certificate. How do they arrive at 1.2 million deaths?
You don;lt seem to understand, what I'm asking you is how they arrived at that number. Nobody has "died by coal" on their death certificate. How do they arrive at 1.2 million deaths?
Your lack of understanding is your problem, not mine. Try reading page 26 and 27 in the research I linked to.
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LOL, and I suppose the authors of the articel you cited have crystal ball and know exactly what the future is? Long term projections are difficult becsue things change however EIA projections are fairly accurate. The bottom line is there is nothing to replace it without some extraordinary amount of expense, end of discussion.
End of discussion? I don't think so.....Strange that your long term predictions are valid, but mine aren't...Biased much?
Nuclear on the other hand at the current rate of usage is estimated to last 230 years. Of course if Coal and gas reserves are exhausted, this figure will fall. On the other hand, extraction of uranium from seawater could extend that figure to 60,000 years (again based on today's current rate of usage). The uranium extraction technology exists today, but it's not very efficient yet.
The nuclear industry has not recovered from the movie "The China Syndrome" and Three Mile Island. Yes a few new plants will be coming online in the next few years. But we still have not solved the waste problem. NIMBY stands for not in my back yard and that is the crux of the problem. Many of our reactors are storing their nuclear waste on site; they have no place for long term storage.
The average age of our nuclear plants is 30 years old. They were only licensed for 40 years. Oyster creek, in NJ has been operating for 46 years due to an extension. But decommissioning these plants also presents problems - especially since we have no long term 'safe' storage facilities.
All I am saying is that nuclear has a very rough road ahead. You can Google like I can Google. There are two camps - the industry and those that try to protect our environment. Another 'little' mistake, like Three Mile Island, will put nuclear out of the question for generations.
Your lack of understanding is your problem, not mine. Try reading page 26 and 27 in the research I linked to.
I can assure you I fully understand it and certainly much more than you, what I'm specifically asking you is the methodology used to arrive at these numbers. When you are willing to admit you don't know I'll be glad to explain it.
End of discussion? I don't think so.....Strange that your long term predictions are valid, but mine aren't...Biased much?
You understand the issues related too solar and wind regarding base power? You can stack coal to the moon next to a coal plant, you cannot do that with wind and solar. The capacity and storage needs for solar and wind grow exponentially if you want to replace base power. Thew per kWh cost for storage and generation would need to be somewhere around 10% of fossil fuels to be competitive. If you do no know why that is I'd urge you to educate yourself on it.
You are going to educate me? That's rich. Hell you can't even retain what I've already posted here..... Nobody here, least of all me, is advocating completely abandoning fossil fuel use in power generation, although there are those that think it is possible... News - The world could completely abandon fossil fuels by 2050 - The Weather Network
You understand the issues related too solar and wind regarding base power? You can stack coal to the moon next to a coal plant, you cannot do that with wind and solar. The capacity and storage needs for solar and wind grow exponentially if you want to replace base power. Thew per kWh cost for storage and generation would need to be somewhere around 10% of fossil fuels to be competitive. If you do no know why that is I'd urge you to educate yourself on it.
LOL. Look, it's time you start investing your money in other forms of energy. The growth rate of coal, while still positive, has been declining.
The country plans to increase its capacity from 23 gigawatts currently to 58 gigawatts by 2020, at which point it is also aiming to have 30 additional gigawatts under construction, according to the World Nuclear Association. Right now, of the 64 reactors being built around the world, 24 are in China—15 more than in second-place Russia....
....The Chinese government is banking on nuclear playing a significant role in helping it achieve its goals of having 15 percent of overall energy consumption come from non-fossil fuel sources by 2020, and 20 percent by 2030 (in 2012, 91 percent came from fossil fuels, according to the Energy Information Administration).
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