PeterC wrote:
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:04:51 -0800 (PST), Calvin wrote:

On 23 Feb, 19:21, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:
http://www.independent.co.uk/environ...uclear-power-y...

At last some sense.

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Dave - The Medway Handymanwww.medwayhandyman.co.uk
In general I agree *but* uranium ore is not an infinite resource
either. If we all switch from burning long dead trees to nuclear we
are simply buying some decades before we face the same problem again.
Not that renewables are a simple answer either as we'd need country
sized solutions based on wind or wave or whatever to supply our ever
increasing energy demand. Really we need to address our energy usage.

Fusion is the answer, so we are told - when the Sun goes nova we'll have
all the energy needed.

Fusion is definitely making some progress.

They have actually got more power out than they put in..

I keep wondering if rather than trying to contain plasma over long
periods, they shouldn't sort of do an internal fusion engine, where a
ceramic piston compresses deuterium, and a laser 'ignites it' and
drives a crankshaft :-)