(03-31-2022, 01:38 PM)Mav date Wrote:Emotional? Mr Spock is more emotional than my post.References to Polonium are clearly meant to scare readers, ignoring some good works of fiction just how many people have been offed using this method, out of the nearly 8 Billion currently on the planet? I mean we are all at so much risk, popping off like Polonium lightbulbs!
My mates are going on a dive trip to Bikini Atoll next year, a friend who went there back in 2019 is taking them, they have been planning it right through the pandemic and keep getting delayed by a virus., Apparently though according to you sources fusion bombs have left the joint is contaminated for 10,000 years!
Nuclear weapons and fallout are bad, but on average you get more radiation from living above a coal seam than you get from a power station or weapons residuals. you are more at risk visiting Cardiff or Yarram for a holiday than travelling to Bikini Atoll or Fugkushima Japan!
Should we ban living in South Eastern Victoria, the major coal seam runs from Metung to Ballarat? Apparently not, but burying radioactive stuff under ground isn't a solution, so I hear!
Emotion won't cut it in this debate, the feel good solutions are falling short of expectation, and all they are really doing is just another version of pushing the problem into another time and space. The planet needs stuff that actually works without carbon emission now, and it can't wait for a the glimmer of hope promised but not yet delivered by some ideologues green nirvana!
The truth hides in plain site, so many people know it, the billionaires sell you batteries and panels while they develop nuclear and hydrogen on the quiet, they aren't going to go all in on a high risk renewable bet with the only home they can really ever have! All the other shizen, moving to Mars, living under the sea, sailing off to a new planet is for Homer Simpson!
FMD, They just approved billions for an offshore windfarm in Bass Strait, how long will that last? The Navys of the world scrap billion dollars vessels each year because they can't solve "The corrosion problem" and they have been working on it for 200 years. The green dream public think they are going to build a forest of wind farms offshore and let them run for decades and decades out at sea providing green carbon free energy, when in reality they will need to be rebuilt or replaced completely on regular intervals. They'll barely get the carbon budget back from the processing of the materials they need let alone power anyone with decades of surplus green energy.
The biggest reason all these green projects get approval is economics and nothing to do with the triple bottom line, they can be monetised so someone gets to make a profit even if it's only until the subsidies run out.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"