Sentences with phrase «using nuclear»

Well, if we think that cleaner modes of delivering power will help, then it is falling down obvious that we should be using nuclear fission.

Fuel cycle All the steps involved in using nuclear fuel in reactors: supply, use, processing and disposal of waste.

Vendicar Decarian: Please find where I suggested using nuclear energy as the sole power source for the human race.

Of course, I would still advocate using nuclear power for most of our base load electrical power generation.

The province has a long and checkered history of developing and using nuclear power.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration includes the following in U.S. primary energy production: coal production, waste coal supplied, and coal refuse recovery; crude oil and lease condensate production; natural gas plant liquids production; dry natural gas excluding supplemental gaseous fuels production; nuclear electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the nuclear plant heat rates); conventional hydroelectricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); geothermal electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and geothermal heat pump energy and geothermal direct use energy; solar thermal and photovoltaic electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates), and solar thermal direct use energy; wind electricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil - fuels plant heat rates); wood and wood - derived fuels consumption; biomass waste consumption; and biofuels feedstock.

Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change, produced by the non-profit Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), documents accident, proliferation and contamination threats associated with reviving the nuclear industry as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

And in terms using nuclear energy, it seems currently both China and India and moving in the correct direction, whereas Germany has moved and is moving in the wrong direction.

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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a prestigious journal, established in 1945 to warn the public about the consequences of using nuclear weapons.

Anyhow, it seems if what think as very unlikely [or impossible] were to occur, that people living in 2040 would see there is a problem and get serious about building and using nuclear energy so as to reduce future CO2 emission.

If proven, it could potentially be used as a pathway for using nuclear fuels to generate motion while bypassing the steam turbine.

Proponents of nuclear power point out that these countries have been using nuclear power for decades and that it has, in large part, been safe.

It is not how we are using the Nuclear Power Plants that we have, it is how we are not building the ones we need because of junk CO2 science.

Of course we still have to stop CO2 emissions, all while not using nuclear power.

Let me put it this way, I can if I want move electricity with steel wires, I can if I want make electricity or intense heat from thorium, or maybe in the future even potassium or hydrogen from water using nuclear reactions.

I can not hell but thin that coal / methane to liquid fuels and using nuclear / coal for 90 % of base load would be the best long term solution to energy independence.

What do you think of using nuclear explosive devices to enhance production from a single well in shale?

A country using nuclear energy is therefore rated as a country using gas, the most efficient fossil fuel.

Putting aside the fear factor, what do you think of using nuclear explosive devices to fracture source rock to enhance the filling of reservoirs 3.

«While 62 % recognised cost advantages in using nuclear energy, only 42 % believed that they reduced CO2 emissions.»

(However, the Los Alamos Natural Laboratory has proposed Green Freedom, which is a carbon - neutral version of the process using nuclear energy, along with atmospheric CO2 as the carbon source.)

He decided that to respond to climate change, using nuclear reactors should be reconsidered as a viable option.

We could at a pinch get a reasonable using nuclear and sea water DIC, generating fresh water and hydrocarbons, but running atmospheric CO2 and wind / sunlight hydrocarbon conversion is impossible.

Why aren't we all using nuclear?

Compared with potentially < $ 0 — $ 70 / t CO2 abated using nuclear power.

My calculations suggest the CO2 sequestration costs would be halved using nuclear power (allowing for the higher cost of nuclear plants in Antarctica and allowing for the need to disperse the excess heat).

For example, I do not share the values of the late Dr. Edward Teller, an advocate of using nuclear devices to build harbours in Alaska (among other things), who possibly inspired the movie character Dr. Strangelove.

While using nuclear fusion to power homes and businesses may still be some way off, the work proves that the burning of star - like fuel can be achieved and contained using the current approach.

Thermal plants using nuclear energy or gas turbines to run steam - electric units are among these technological advances.

Using nuclear heat to gasify waste and sequestering the CO2 fraction is going to be more sustainable than anything running on coal.

Have you seen this: http://bravenewclimate.com/2013/01/16/zero-emission-synfuel-from-seawater/ unlimited hydrocarbon synfuels from seawater (using nuclear energy) at $ 3 - $ 6 / gallon using current technollogy according to US Navy Research (Audi also estimated the same cost).

But Mark Lynas, a climate change writer in favour of using nuclear and renewables to combat global warming, said: «It is stretching credibility for the IPCC to suggest that a richer world with two billion more people will use less energy in 2050.

In addition there's an article by Bill McKibben dealing with climate change, and an interview of Brice Smith who speaks about the high risk consequences of using nuclear power as a substitute for fossil fuels.

The 54 percent opposing it is up significantly from 43 percent a year ago, while the 44 percent who favor using nuclear energy is down from 51 percent.

Re # 33 While using nuclear explosions to solve the problem of AGW is almost certainly less political acceptable than the alternative of building thousands of nuclear power stations, it could produce a solution that would be more effective if the situation becomes urgent.

It was always inconceivable that President Obama would consider using a nuclear explosion to cut the flow of oil from the unrelenting seabed gusher in the Gulf of Mexico — no matter how many other options faltered.

Essentially we are reducing CO2 to hydrocarbon so we can oxidize it back to CO2, paying the second law cost by using nuclear power.

Using nuclear fuel of any type, on the scale where hundreds of thousands of megawatts in electricity are generated to significantly reduce CO2 emissions, human error will be inevitable, and statistically very, very relevant.

I believe this onslaught is unreasonable because they're using a nuclear warhead to swat a fly.

But they have moved slowly, and eventually district officials became convinced that without using the nuclear option, they would never achieve the changes they say are necessary.

Gather some evidence, then write an essay arguing for either using nuclear...

In the unit, students would read a variety of texts that provided both the pros and cons for using nuclear and / or fossil fuels.

Getting involved in the Open Source Malaria project meant they could send their samples to the university to be analysed using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) technology — expensive machines that would otherwise have been out of their reach.

It's kind of like using a nuclear missile to end a war, or using a stick of dynamite to take out a colony of ants.

Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, computer simulations and microscopy, the researchers showed how disease mutations and arginine methylation, a functional modification common to a large family of proteins with low - complexity domains, altered the formation of the liquid droplets and their conversion to solid - like states in disease.

Using nuclear power to generate electricity provides many benefits: it's low carbon, it diversifies our electricity supply, it operates reliably on a constant basis, and it provides substantial economic benefits in communities where plants operate and to U.S. companies who supply the global nuclear industry.

Using the nuclear energy in the fuel assemblies, these facilities produce more than 2.5 trillion kilowatts of electricity each year.

Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, however, he found at least two different arrangements of the two domains in the protein: one open, one closed, neither resembling that of the crystal structure.

Well, if we think that cleaner modes of delivering power will help, then it is falling down obvious that we should be using nuclear fission.