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A few years ago I moved from the farm to the city. In my city apartment I have
full central air and I hate it. I can stay cool but the electric bill during hot humid months is about like the national debt. My old farmhouse was a story and a half with blown in insulation in all the walls and the roof rafters. I had nice shade trees on the west side of the house that provided good shade after 2:00 in the afternoon. I had good screened windows on all the windows during the summer. I could open windows downstairs and leave the stairway door open and a few windows cracked upstairs and you could feel the draft moving through the house. I had a sprinkler type hose along the top ridgeline of the house and when the temps in the house started getting uncomfortable I would turn the water on. You could feel the house cool off almost immediately. I would adjust the water flow to keep the roof just wet enough to keep it damp but not so much that water would run down the gutters. I estimate on a real hot day it would take an extra hundred gallons a day to keep the house cool.My water cost for that extra 3,000 gallons a month was about $10 IIRC. I don't recall ever having an electric bill higher than $30 for a month in the summer. Friends with similar sized houses and central air were paying $70 or more a month. If you live in an area where water is not in short supply this is an option to consider. Dennis |
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Gunluvver2 wrote in message ... If you live in an area where water is not in short supply this is an option to consider. Yep. And yep. The city slickers haven't a clue. Get back to your roots and be satisfied. |
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... Gunluvver2 wrote in message ... If you live in an area where water is not in short supply this is an option to consider. Yep. And yep. The city slickers haven't a clue. Get back to your roots and be satisfied. Too bad you'll look like an eccentric with that sprinkler on the roof. :-p Tim -- "I've got more trophies than Wayne Gretsky and the Pope combined!" - Homer Simpson Website @ http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms |
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I also live in the country, rural Alabama, and my house is surrounded
by huge pines and oaks. The sun really never hits my roof. I put a new roof down back in late 85, and the shingles have yet to seal down in most of the areas........the only areas they have ever sealed is the relatively small areas the sun may hit on occassion. Heard it takes direct sunlight to make em seal, and outside temp alone will not do it. My power bills are fairly low as well, and in the winter my power bills go even lower as I heat with wood. Too much concrete, asphalt, and bricks in the city that trap and retain heat from that sun all day, only to radiate it all back out at night........Nothing beats a nice shady country place away from all that city noise and heat and rat race of day to day life. Visit my website: http://www.frugalmachinist.com Opinions expressed are those of my wifes, I had no input whatsoever. Remove "nospam" from email addy. |
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Yep. And yep. The city slickers haven't a clue. Get back to your roots and be satisfied. I don't understand this statement. What are you saying; don't use air conditioning? Do you not use any modern conveniences? Still driving that horse and buddy? Lane |
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"Lane" lane_nospam@copperaccents_dot_com wrote in message ... Yep. And yep. The city slickers haven't a clue. Get back to your roots and be satisfied. I don't understand this statement. What are you saying; don't use air conditioning? Do you not use any modern conveniences? Still driving that horse and buddy? Lane Ah, er... "buggy" |
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"Tim Williams" wrote in message ...
"Spike" wrote in message ... Gunluvver2 wrote in message ... If you live in an area where water is not in short supply this is an option to consider. Yep. And yep. The city slickers haven't a clue. Get back to your roots and be satisfied. Too bad you'll look like an eccentric with that sprinkler on the roof. :-p Tim Could be handy in fire season out in CA. Around here, the RH is usually 10-15% during summer months, evaporative coolers work pretty well most of the time for cheap and the water consumption isn't really that high. Too bad the RH is about 40% right now and it's been getting up into triple digits. Work has regular AC but home is pretty miserable right now. Only a couple more weeks of it to endure, then it'll start cooling off. Stan |
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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:19:58 -0700, "Lane"
lane_nospam@copperaccents_dot_com wrote: Yep. And yep. The city slickers haven't a clue. Get back to your roots and be satisfied. I don't understand this statement. What are you saying; don't use air conditioning? Do you not use any modern conveniences? Still driving that horse and buddy? Lane I believe that the idea is that there are low tech, simple and inexpensive solutions for many problems that the average joe simply goes down to Home Despot and pays for, then pays big money for using it from that point on. Gunner "The entire population of Great Britain has been declared insane by their government. It is believed that should any one of them come in possession of a firearm, he will immediately start to foam at the mouth and begin kiling children at the nearest school. The proof of their insanity is that they actually believe this." -- someone in misc.survivalism |
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"Lane" lane_nospam@copperaccents_dot_com wrote in
: "Lane" lane_nospam@copperaccents_dot_com wrote in message ... Yep. And yep. The city slickers haven't a clue. Get back to your roots and be satisfied. I don't understand this statement. What are you saying; don't use air conditioning? Do you not use any modern conveniences? Still driving that horse and buddy? Lane Ah, er... "buggy" Thanks for the correction. I was getting concerned. -- John Snow "If I knew what I was doing, I wouldn't be here" |
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In article , Gunner says...
I believe that the idea is that there are low tech, simple and inexpensive solutions for many problems that the average joe simply goes down to Home Despot and pays for, then pays big money for using it from that point on. Unfortunately, evaporative cooling doesn't work when the humidity is around 80 percent. Older houses do deal with the heat better though. Ours was built around 1900 and has old plaster and lath walls. The plaster stays quite cool during the day, so if the nights aren't too bad it's noticeably nicer inside during the day. It also has the old cast iron radiators, which seem to work a good deal better than baseboard. However when the days are 90 degs, and high humidity, the house fan just doesn't do it. So our bedrooms each have a small AC unit in the window. Jim ================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at yktvmv (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ================================================== |
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"JohnF" wrote in message
... I wish my electric bill was $70. I have no airconditioning but am all electric. Remember the futuristic commercials in the late 50's early 60's about how wonderful the "all electric" house was going to be? Yeah, too bad the nuclear wonderland didn't take off. Tim -- "I've got more trophies than Wayne Gretsky and the Pope combined!" - Homer Simpson Website @ http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms |
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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:06:44 -0500, "Tim Williams"
calmly ranted: "Spike" wrote in message ... Gunluvver2 wrote in message ... If you live in an area where water is not in short supply this is an option to consider. Yep. And yep. The city slickers haven't a clue. Get back to your roots and be satisfied. Too bad you'll look like an eccentric with that sprinkler on the roof. :-p Yeah, and a wet aluminum-foil roof (shiny side in so he can read their thoughts but they can't read his) would be downright strange. I moved to the country (3 miles outside a town of 23,000) a couple years ago and found that they had electricity out here! ;) I added $2.3k worth of low-E, dual-paned windows. Add $6k to that for a nice, new 96% efficient gas furnace (the PVC pipe for a chimney flue gave that away) and A/C unit keep me a toasty 69F (or chilled 75F) 365 days a year for $28-$48/mo electric in the summer and $6 (min charge) to $35 in natural gas in the winter. It has a 10 year warranty and may outlast me. If you're using an old furnace, a replacement will pay or itself in just a few years, but the comfort provided is worth TEN TIMES that. When I was a student in Phoenix in '72 (17° in the morning when I got up, 104° at noon when I went to lunch), I had a swamp cooler which kept the 4 rooms of the 1920's mansion (I rented 1/3 of it) quite cool even in 100+ temps due to the low humidity. The room it was in did turn a bit moldy, though, so they're nowhere near perfect. It doubled the electric bill in the summer, too. I much prefer forced air heat/cooling, TYVM. - DANCING: The vertical frustration of a horizontal desire. --------------------------------------------------------- http://diversify.com Full Service Web Programming |
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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:02:06 GMT, JohnF
wrote: I wish my electric bill was $70. I have no airconditioning but am all electric. Remember the futuristic commercials in the late 50's early 60's about how wonderful the "all electric" house was going to be? It ain't. I finally got my bills down under $150 a month. Luckily I work from 5:00AM to 1:30 so it doesn't get nasty hot until I get home. On the really hot days I pull the mattress pad back off of my waterbed and lay down on it with just the sheet covering the vinyl....now THAT's airconditioning JohnF I do that also , just make sure its not too cold or you'll wake up dead from hypothermia. The wife does the bills , I don't want to know what my electric bill is. When I run the machines alot then she will make a point to tell me. |
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On 15 Jul 2004 13:38:54 -0700, jim rozen
wrote: In article , Gunner says... I believe that the idea is that there are low tech, simple and inexpensive solutions for many problems that the average joe simply goes down to Home Despot and pays for, then pays big money for using it from that point on. Unfortunately, evaporative cooling doesn't work when the humidity is around 80 percent. Older houses do deal with the heat better though. Ours was built around 1900 and has old plaster and lath walls. The plaster stays quite cool during the day, so if the nights aren't too bad it's noticeably nicer inside during the day. It also has the old cast iron radiators, which seem to work a good deal better than baseboard. However when the days are 90 degs, and high humidity, the house fan just doesn't do it. So our bedrooms each have a small AC unit in the window. Jim Of course..and ice houses dont work very well when you live in the high desert...no ice and no freezing weather. A humid day in my neck of the woods is 40% . There are low tech low cost methods for many things and they are all different for where you live or what you are trying to do. Gunner Gunner "This device is provided without warranty of any kind as to reliability, accuracy, existence or otherwise or fitness for any particular purpose and Bioalchemic Products specifically does not warrant, guarantee, imply or make any representations as to its merchantability for any particular purpose and furthermore shall have no liability for or responsibility to you or any other person, entity or deity with respect to any loss or damage whatsoever caused by this device or object or by any attempts to destroy it by hammering it against a wall or dropping it into a deep well or any other means whatsoever and moreover asserts that you indicate your acceptance of this agreement or any other agreement that may he substituted at any time by coming within five miles of the product or observing it through large telescopes or by any other means because you are such an easily cowed moron who will happily accept arrogant and unilateral conditions on a piece of highly priced garbage that you would not dream of accepting on a bag of dog biscuits and is used solely at your own risk.' |
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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:33:02 -0500, "Tim Williams"
wrote: "JohnF" wrote in message .. . I wish my electric bill was $70. I have no airconditioning but am all electric. Remember the futuristic commercials in the late 50's early 60's about how wonderful the "all electric" house was going to be? Yeah, too bad the nuclear wonderland didn't take off. Tim My monthy electic bill is around $200 a month. Damn Gray Davis to hell. Gunner "This device is provided without warranty of any kind as to reliability, accuracy, existence or otherwise or fitness for any particular purpose and Bioalchemic Products specifically does not warrant, guarantee, imply or make any representations as to its merchantability for any particular purpose and furthermore shall have no liability for or responsibility to you or any other person, entity or deity with respect to any loss or damage whatsoever caused by this device or object or by any attempts to destroy it by hammering it against a wall or dropping it into a deep well or any other means whatsoever and moreover asserts that you indicate your acceptance of this agreement or any other agreement that may he substituted at any time by coming within five miles of the product or observing it through large telescopes or by any other means because you are such an easily cowed moron who will happily accept arrogant and unilateral conditions on a piece of highly priced garbage that you would not dream of accepting on a bag of dog biscuits and is used solely at your own risk.' |
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"Tim Williams" wrote in message ... "JohnF" wrote in message ... I wish my electric bill was $70. I have no airconditioning but am all electric. Remember the futuristic commercials in the late 50's early 60's about how wonderful the "all electric" house was going to be? Yeah, too bad the nuclear wonderland didn't take off. This gets my goat also. 20% of this nations power is produced by nuclear power and that emits nothing into the environment. 50% of this nations power is produced by burning coal. That filthy crap dumps mercury, and radioactive particles into the atmosphere in quantities measured in tons. That kills and harms thousands of folks per year, plus all of the mining and transportation accidents. The last I heard the fuel cost for a nuclear reactor is something on the order of just under 3 cents a kwh including long term waste disposal and plant decommissioning. Compare this to France. They have something like 90% of there power from nukes and export lots to other countries in Europe. -- Roger Shoaf About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then they come up with this striped stuff. |
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However when the days are 90 degs, and high humidity, the
house fan just doesn't do it. So our bedrooms each have a small AC unit in the window. Jim That could be your problem. I used to live in an old house built about 1750. It had white external walls and the smallest wall faced south. When I came home from work on a hot day, the inside temperature was up to 10 degrees less than outside. If I left all the doors and windows open, the house actually got warmer. I agree that all this depends upon the design of your particular house. I hadn't heard of wetting the roof before either. My present house may benefit from that technique to keep the bedrooms cool as they are built into the loft. Thanks. John |
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In article , Gunner says...
Of course..and ice houses dont work very well when you live in the high desert...no ice and no freezing weather. And yet - around here there are many man-made lakes, whose purpose was strictly for harvesting ice during the winter. Much of NYC's ice was floated down the river on barges from this area. Also the bricks used to build much of NYC. Jim ================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at yktvmv (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ================================================== |
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In article , Roger Shoaf says...
The last I heard the fuel cost for a nuclear reactor is something on the order of just under 3 cents a kwh including long term waste disposal and plant decommissioning. OK, that would make sense, except there has never *been* any long term waste disposal. Ever. All of the power reactors in the US all have every bit of spent fuel stored on site, in pools. No disposal. Just warehousing. As a point of issue, the spent fuel pool for NY's Indian Point reactors (two and three) is now full. They want to start taking fuel out of the water and begin storing it above ground. If they had some way to 'dispose' of the fuel offsite, they would do so. They don't. Jim ================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at yktvmv (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ================================================== |
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Too bad you'll look like an eccentric with that sprinkler on the roof. :-p
In the original post I said sprinkler hose. You know the type of hose that has little pin holes in it in regular spacing. Sends out a fine misty spray when water is turned on. Dennis |
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On 16 Jul 2004 13:28:34 -0700, jim rozen wrote:
||In article , Roger Shoaf says... || ||The last I heard the fuel cost for a nuclear reactor is something on the ||order of just under 3 cents a kwh including long term waste disposal and ||plant decommissioning. || ||OK, that would make sense, except there has never *been* any ||long term waste disposal. Ever. On the contrary, nuclear waste disposal is ALL long term. Texas Parts Guy |
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"williamhenry" wrote in message .. . no no buddy was way funnier I was afraid that there would be some who would think that. Shame one you! grin Lane |
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In article , Rex B says...
On the contrary, nuclear waste disposal is ALL long term. Long term, yes. Disposal, no. You don't get rid of it. The correct statement would really be, "long term waste warehousing." Jim ================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at yktvmv (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ================================================== |
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In article , Gunluvver2 says...
Too bad you'll look like an eccentric with that sprinkler on the roof. :-p In the original post I said sprinkler hose. You know the type of hose that has little pin holes in it in regular spacing. Sends out a fine misty spray when water is turned on. We usually have that sort of thing built-in when the house is assembled. It's called 'rain' around here. :^) Jim ================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at yktvmv (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ================================================== |
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"jim rozen" wrote in message ... In article , Gunluvver2 says... Too bad you'll look like an eccentric with that sprinkler on the roof. :-p In the original post I said sprinkler hose. You know the type of hose that has little pin holes in it in regular spacing. Sends out a fine misty spray when water is turned on. We usually have that sort of thing built-in when the house is assembled. It's called 'rain' around here. :^) Half your luck. Where do you get some of that stuff? -- Jeff R. (in drought-stricken Sydney) |
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"jim rozen" wrote in message ... In article , Roger Shoaf says... The last I heard the fuel cost for a nuclear reactor is something on the order of just under 3 cents a kwh including long term waste disposal and plant decommissioning. OK, that would make sense, except there has never *been* any long term waste disposal. Ever. All of the power reactors in the US all have every bit of spent fuel stored on site, in pools. No disposal. Just warehousing. As a point of issue, the spent fuel pool for NY's Indian Point reactors (two and three) is now full. They want to start taking fuel out of the water and begin storing it above ground. If they had some way to 'dispose' of the fuel offsite, they would do so. They don't. The Physicists do not consider disposal/storage a problem. They do however consider that coal burning spewing tons of radioactive material into the atmosphere to be a problem. The really nasty zoomies have a reasonably short life, the relatively benign stuff has the long life. -- Roger Shoaf About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then they come up with this striped stuff. |
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"Sunworshipper" wrote in message
... How much to build Yucca Mt. and test all the other sites? How much more to build a nuke plant vs. coal and all the mining and refining put together. How much for the transportation technology? Plus, 10,000 yrs.+ of watching it? Well, we wouldn't need so damn much of that if the public weren't scared to **** about nuclear everything. It can all be transported safely with far less to do.. truck drivers are supposed to stop before letting their payload get struck by a train anyway, no? Tim -- "I've got more trophies than Wayne Gretsky and the Pope combined!" - Homer Simpson Website @ http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms |
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"Sunworshipper" wrote in message ... I don't believe the rosy numbers for nuke power. There is a story about Rocky Flats in the paper today , granted it was a weapons plant , but some of the cost should be added in. Like winning the cold war? The DEO estimated the clean up would take 60 yrs. and cost $36 billion. Now they are saying only $7 billion , sounds fishy to me. And they are going to move it to where? How much is it going to cost to move (clean up) 3 mile island and all the other decommissioned plants? How much does and did it cost to write up probably billions of pages of "law" about nukes? How much for all the technology , partly for energy generation? How much to build Yucca Mt. and test all the other sites? How much more to build a nuke plant vs. coal and all the mining and refining put together. How much for the transportation technology? Plus, 10,000 yrs.+ of watching it? I know I've asked this before , but it just doesn't sound right. I bet if you compared solar/wind/geo/hydro vs. coal vs. nuke with real honest numbers the numbers would be the inverse. Hydro is good, but you are limited to the number of places where you can build the dams. Wind shows some promise, but only produces when the wind blows. Solar is no where near cost effictive, see: http://www.energyadvocate.com/fw61.htm IIRC they just made public the Yucca Mt. thing , its only around a million pages long. Should be no problem to come to a consciences if it's a good idea to put it all in one hole in what a couple of life times of reading. Sure we need the power, but hiding the numbers in billions of pages isn't comforting. What about the trees and all the other storage mediums of the information? :o) I am not sure of what you are referring to when you write "the Yucca Mt. thing". Yucca Mountain is the site designated as the final repository for the US nuclear power waste. Political squabbling has delayed the opening of the facility, but I suspect that sooner or later the place will open and do what it was designed to do. -- Roger Shoaf About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then they come up with this striped stuff. |
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On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:36:45 -0700, "Roger Shoaf"
wrote: The Physicists do not consider disposal/storage a problem. They do however consider that coal burning spewing tons of radioactive material into the atmosphere to be a problem. The really nasty zoomies have a reasonably short life, the relatively benign stuff has the long life. This is the reality of waste storage, get used to it. http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/st...517159667.html Wayne |
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On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:05:09 -0500, "Tim Williams"
calmly ranted: "Sunworshipper" wrote in message .. . How much to build Yucca Mt. and test all the other sites? How much more to build a nuke plant vs. coal and all the mining and refining put together. How much for the transportation technology? Plus, 10,000 yrs.+ of watching it? Well, we wouldn't need so damn much of that if the public weren't scared to **** about nuclear everything. It can all be transported safely with far less to do.. truck drivers are supposed to stop before letting their payload get struck by a train anyway, no? Oui! Tell them to read this: http://www.uic.com.au/nip14.htm (header) -snip- Safety of Nuclear Power Reactors Nuclear Issues Briefing Paper 14 November 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the outset, there has been a strong awareness of the potential hazard of both nuclear criticality and release of radioactive materials. There have been two major reactor accidents in the history of civil nuclear power - Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. One was contained and the other had no provision for containment. These are the only major accidents to have occurred in over 11 000 cumulative reactor-years of commercial operation in 32 countries. The risks from western nuclear power plants, in terms of the likelihood and consequences of an accident or terrorist attack, are minimal compared with other commonly accepted risks. The operation of many nuclear reactors in the former Eastern Bloc is of international concern, and a program of international assistance is helping to improve their safety. -snip- Also tell them 1) Man is not causing global warming (but we should try our damndest to stop trashing the planet.) 2) There is no way to stop a terrorist from doing what he's going to do (so we should simply be more aware, not toss away our rights for false protection schemes as deemed fit by Lord Ashcroft.) 3) Affirmative Action programs, the NEA, and the War on Drugs aren't working and should be scrapped or replaced by saner programs. (Let's see, what else...?) - This product cruelly tested on defenseless furry animals - -------------------------------------------------------- http://diversify.com Web App & Database Programming |
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Well, we wouldn't need so damn much of that if the public weren't scared
to **** about nuclear everything. Tim I agree. The public is so under-educated about radioactivity and contamination that their natural reaction to anything deemed radiocative is fear. Little do they know that they live every day exposed to ionizing radiation. Interestingly enough, having served time on a nuclear submarine, I received more exposure while in port with the reactor shutdown than at sea when the reactor was operating at power. Shawn |
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Sadly, this can be accurately restated as
The public is so under-educated.... that their natural reaction to anything... is fear. Jon On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:38:14 -0400, "Shawn" shawn_75ATcomcastDOTnet wrote: Well, we wouldn't need so damn much of that if the public weren't scared to **** about nuclear everything. Tim I agree. The public is so under-educated about radioactivity and contamination that their natural reaction to anything deemed radiocative is fear. Little do they know that they live every day exposed to ionizing radiation. Interestingly enough, having served time on a nuclear submarine, I received more exposure while in port with the reactor shutdown than at sea when the reactor was operating at power. Shawn ---------------------------------------------------- Anything being cooked a second time needs a hot oven. |
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"Roger Shoaf" wrote in message ...
"Tim Williams" wrote in message ... "JohnF" wrote in message ... I wish my electric bill was $70. I have no airconditioning but am all electric. Remember the futuristic commercials in the late 50's early 60's about how wonderful the "all electric" house was going to be? Yeah, too bad the nuclear wonderland didn't take off. This gets my goat also. 20% of this nations power is produced by nuclear power and that emits nothing into the environment. Not true. Nuclear power emits heat into the environment. All that water used to cool the reactor gets dumped back to the lake or river it came from hotter than when it was taken in. This leads to algal blooms, some of which are toxic, and can disrupt breeding cycles of fish and invertibrates. In some cases the cooling water leaves the plant with a small but higher than background radioactivity. Of course the biggest problem is still storage of the fuel rods. 50% of this nations power is produced by burning coal. That filthy crap dumps mercury, and radioactive particles into the atmosphere in quantities measured in tons. That kills and harms thousands of folks per year, plus all of the mining and transportation accidents. The last I heard the fuel cost for a nuclear reactor is something on the order of just under 3 cents a kwh including long term waste disposal and plant decommissioning. Compare this to France. They have something like 90% of there power from nukes and export lots to other countries in Europe. |
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Well, we wouldn't need so damn much of that if the public weren't scared to **** about nuclear everything. I agree. The public is so under-educated That was the correct stopping point. Ted |
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"rpayne" wrote in message ... Not true. Nuclear power emits heat into the environment. All that water used to cool the reactor gets dumped back to the lake or river it came from hotter than when it was taken in. This leads to algal blooms, some of which are toxic, and can disrupt breeding cycles of fish and invertibrates. In some cases the cooling water leaves the plant with a small but higher than background radioactivity. Of course the biggest problem is still storage of the fuel rods. Tell me something, why do you suggest that storing the spent fuel rods is a bigger problem than the *tons* of radioactive material spewed forth by burning coal? Or perhaps the *tons* of radioactive material sitting in slag heaps? The coal also releases mercury into the atmosphere when it is burned also. Myself I would rather raise my kids at the fence line of a nuclear power plant than down wind from a coal fired power plant. As far as fish kills go, why don't you read this: http://www.energyadvocate.com/fw89.htm -- Roger Shoaf About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then they come up with this striped stuff. |
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