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reply to post by Liberal1984
thetruthseeker Let's turn off nuclear energy and switch to free energy to the whole planet. We do not need companies which are sucking our dollars when Tesla found a way to have all the energy we need without having to pay each and every month. If that’s the truth why haven’t either you personally (or at least someone you know of personally) built one of these devices?
thruthseek3r
reply to post by Liberal1984
Let's turn off nuclear energy and switch to free energy to the whole planet. We do not need companies which are sucking our dollars when Tesla found a way to have all the energy we need without having to pay each and every month.
Thruthseek3r
Anyone who tells you anything is safe, forgets the fact that there is really nothing (including breathing) that is safe –just less dangerous than the alternatives.
downwind: The Fukushima lies are the ones being told by the authorities whose "official" position is the nuclear power is safe while the entire Pacific ocean is being contaminated.
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Mankind, especially profit motivated ones, are not ready to manage nuclear power. Look up the "Tooth Fairy Project".
The Tooth Fairy Project is a pseudoscientific research project[1] undertaken by an anti-nuclear organization called Radiation and Public Health Project. It intends to demonstrate that routine emissions of very small amounts of radioactivity from nuclear power plants have a measurable impact on the health of people living near those facilities. The project's activities are supported by the movie star Alec Baldwin[2] and some other misguided celebrities. rationalwiki.org...
That is actually true. Bad if was a coal plant there, it would be releasing less toxic toxins (but in larger quantities) and therefore amounting to a greater public health threat overall. That is the nature of fossil fuels, even gas (which used to be relatively clean) is now coming from fracking.
The Indian point nuke plant north of NYC routinely releases radioactive steam, just like all of the other similar plants. The steam in turn carries strontium-90 downwind to the population of Westchester county. Strontium-90 is chemically similar to calcium and is now found in higher concentrations in baby teeth than back in the early 60's when this was being monitored due to above ground nuclear testing.
It’s just a matter of accepting that if the West doesn’t develop nuclear power more, the third world will continue to use older technologies like fossil fuels (and in the process will emit far more pollution than our population ever did). Electricity improves human life far more than it costs it. Be real. People are not going to stop using it anytime soon, and third world nations are not going to build nuclear if we’re still favouring fossil fuel –a finite solution, that probably only delays the introduction of nuclear power...
So, who thinks it is a good idea to have radioactive particles bombarding nearby cells in the bodies of their families... in their teeth, bones and mammary glands?
If it’s completely illegal to build these free energy machines, then that only confirms nuclear is the best realistic option available.
wishes: Because...... it's completely ILLEGAL to build them. I personally know of someone who did and received a visit to 'shut it down' immediately.
Time to stop buying all electricity for your home then, isn’t it? Did you now that electricity (in addition to being a major cause of accidental death) is also the biggest cause of house fire.
dlbott: I agree, why would we continue to waste money and resources for energy that kills us if anything goes wrong.
Tesla’s “free energy” was not free because it violated the recognised laws of physics. It was free simply because it was an electricity transmitter that used the Earth’s ionosphere (not to create more energy than was put in) but to simply transport it in a way anyone could then access it hence being free.
Our government stole all of tesla work and we have been seeing it developed to the advantage of government and the few elite families. They have never released any of his beneficial work. He had proven technics that worked.
These are engineering problems. Not reasons not to tackle those engineering problems –especially since most of the required research has either already been done, or is nearing completion.
Nuclear energy far to expensive to offset the energy we get especially since the waste we can't even get rid of. The OP talks about a process that is incredibly expensive, complex, and never been implemented on a large scale before.
Liberal1984
Very true. But so long as free energy is absent, it remains an absent option. Maybe it’s only because everybody who comes up with it gets murdered?
thetruthseeker: One must remember that the absence of proof is not a proof of absence!
But either way: That would just guarantee the alternatives to nuclear will carry on being coal, fracking and ridiculously inefficient, corrupt, government funded “renewable” schemes.
In which case: Nuclear is still the better option (out of all options realistically available).
I will for people to know that if they oppose nuclear, they should oppose coal & fracking lots more. Because the people of this world deserve to know which are the planets greatest threats so the first things voters choose to eliminate, are actually the biggest doers of harm.
But if free energy has long been possible, then how weird Iran, Cuba, and North Korea don’t use it (all these are isolated by both the international banking system, and international trade embargoes so would have little to lose). Strange too that the Soviet Union, Vietnam and others (in their hayday) never invented it.
thruthseek3r: I still believe though that one day or the other it might become mainstream
History is full of such people. Study it.
ThedudedoesnotabideCare to elaborate on how that one person can change the world?
And what use would that be if building them involves going inside a coffin, and then the whole thing being covered up anyway?
....... should be just as easy as figuring out the complexity of Tesla's missing works.
The logistical problems involved in making it work are significant. First of all, there's the basic fact that thunder storms are sporadic and lighting strikes random; considering that energy demands are steady, dependable energy sources are preferable.
Second, it's not so easy to capture energy delivered in one enormous blast in a split second. It has to be stored and converted to an alternating current, without blowing out the collection system in a single large strike.
Third, the energy contained in a lightning bolt disperses as it travels down to Earth, so a tower would only capture a small fraction of the bolt's potential. In the end, barring the development of a technology that could capture the energy from lightning before it strikes, it's probably best to focus on other, more earthly sources of energy. science.howstuffworks.com...
So rather than waste a lifetime on free-energy it seems better to me (at least for today) to focus on making reactors safer in ways effective enough to then be adopted.
Liberal1984
But if free energy has long been possible, then how weird Iran, Cuba, and North Korea don’t use it (all these are isolated by both the international banking system, and international trade embargoes so would have little to lose). Strange too that the Soviet Union, Vietnam and others (in their hayday) never invented it.
thruthseek3r: I still believe though that one day or the other it might become mainstream
Nuclear between 1971-2009 saved about 1.8 million lives
It’s a problem, but its reasons merely reinforces my observation that the only realistic choice is between: coal, fracking, nuclear and corrupt & inefficient alternatives.
GaryN: The problem is that the people who control big oil/gas/coal now also control (in the USA at least) the nuclear power generating companies, and the NRC and its political comrades make sure that only the large, expensive reactors ever get licensed.
Thetruthseeker: If this energy goes out somewhere in world, be it a prosper or poor country, it will spread worldwide anyway because of the press. This, this is what they high corporates and lobbyists do not want
It’s Highly Significant When…
MarioOnTheFly: And nuclear saved 1.8 in 38 years.
Not a significant number to point as some sort of argument pro nuclear.
Can you kindly explain where that number of how many lives 'saved' from nuclear energy comes from?
Thetruthseeker: If this energy goes out somewhere in world, be it a prosper or poor country, it will spread worldwide anyway because of the press. This, this is what they high corporates and lobbyists do not want
Great! But let’s consider free energy a realistic alternative when at least one of the 196 countries in this world, deploys it. Before that time it far more with day dreaming, than policy debating.
Noto, Japan – Japan had to call on US naval seal teams to help reel the the iron-shelled beast in. Weighing in at over 7 tons, the locals had taken to calling the newest Fukushima mutant クッパ大魔王, quite literally translating to The Great Demon King Koopa (Bowser) of modern lore. Some residents claimed at night its eyes would glow red as it emerged from the waters, usually hungry for small children or cattle, but its appetite knowing no true limit. Other residents say the great demon turtle could be heard wailing in the distance, bellowing out toward the heavens and speaking ancient Japanese, the words they say were a call toward the dark gods of ancient.
Truly, this may have been a beast of the apocalypse, as far as locals in the decimated town of Noto, Japan, are concerned.
When US special forces were finally called in, one soldier recalled, “We watched the target gallop down a highway, running head first toward a brave semitruck driver determined to be heroic and knock the damned monster out with kamikaze tactics. Japanese officials frantically called him on his CB radio, telling him to turn around. I would say the turtle was running a good 20 miles per hour, it was insane! It was crazy.”