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<DIV>Japan's nuke industry scurried away from good old diesel generators much too fast. Nuclear feins that it is green until you look at the complete fuel cycle. My favorite fact about nuclear is this: the United States Enrichment Corporation produces over 90% of ozone layer depleting CFC's emitted annually int he US. Give me carbon over CFC's any day. (and is not reported in the EPA's annual industrial global warming report - in fact, nuclear is exempt from GHG regs) How may 10,000 X's more efficient are CFC atoms at advancing the greenhouse effect than a carbon molecule? </DIV>
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<DIV>Give me carbon emissions over global nuclear contamination, any day.</DIV>
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<DIV>As for atomic batteries; Sr you say? that was new to me: <A href="http://peswiki.com/index.php/Radioactive_battery">http://peswiki.com/index.php/Radioactive_battery</A></DIV>
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<DIV>There are lots of historical and current energy systems in space using Plutonium and HEU. Here are some: <A href="http://www.idealist.ws/nuclearspace.php">http://www.idealist.ws/nuclearspace.php</A> This site is a little hyperbolic but they have compiled a good set of data.</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Steven Tjiang <steve@tjiang.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Green Building <greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> Tedd Weyman <weyman_tedd@yahoo.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tue, May 3, 2011 12:54:53 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Greenbuilding] Opinions on electric plug-in cars - time for atomic batteries?<BR></FONT><BR>"Atomic Battieries"? AFAIK I know those fancy batteries in satellites are powered by highly radioactive isotopes of strontium, etc. Many years ago, one came down in northern canada and spewed radioactive wastes. Spread over a wide area lowers the radiation risks to a non-issue but imagine a car accident in an urban area.....
<DIV><BR clear=all>---- Steve (KZ6LSD)<BR><BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Carmine Vasile <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:gfx-ch@msn.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:gfx-ch@msn.com">gfx-ch@msn.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>Tedd: Have you checked out the EPA-certified performance of the Chevy Volt? ("Chevy Volt", IEEE Spectrum, April 2011, pp. 36-7)<BR> If we ignore source energy, the EPA estimates the Volt returns the equivalent of 93 mpg and will cost US $1.50 to drive 40 miles with electricity costing 12 cents/kWh.<BR> How the volt will cut Greenhouse Gas emissions, the EPA doesn't say?<BR> Four decades ago, compact versions of atomic batteries like those used in Sputnik & Voyager were supposed to help us from gassing ourselves with CO2 & NOX.<BR> What happened?<BR>Carmine<BR><A href="http://gfxtechnology.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>gfxtechnology.com</A> <BR><BR></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Greenbuilding mailing list<BR>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<BR><A href="mailto:Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org" target=_blank rel=nofollow
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