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2006-11-05 Down Under
Howard: 'Foolish' not to consider nuclear energy
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Posted by Fred 2006-11-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Australia (mostly from Queensland) is also the world's biggest coal exporter, which is the subtext of this. Queenslanders see nuclear energy as harming their coal exports.
Posted by phil_b 2006-11-05 04:33||   2006-11-05 04:33|| Front Page Top

#2 America should be building them as well. Surely with today's more modern and hopefully safer designs we could use ample electric power to curb our need of oil.
Posted by RJB in JC MO 2006-11-05 09:03||   2006-11-05 09:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like a win-win situation, sell the valuable coal and keep the more valuable Uranium.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-11-05 09:18||   2006-11-05 09:18|| Front Page Top

#4 use ample electric power to curb our need of oil.

We do not have an energy problem, we have a petroleum ownership problem.

We use NO oil to generate electric power. Oil is used to fuel transport, cars, planes, trains, and ships.

Electricity comes from coal, uranium and hydro. Thus the Queensland conflict to which phil_b alludes. Otherwise known as competition. The government has no place in this competition except to assure that commons externalities are included in the costing appropriately. Let the market decide if nuclear makes sense, not government. Just make nuclear pay and provide for saftey and water and coal for pollution and reclamation.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-11-05 10:17||   2006-11-05 10:17|| Front Page Top

#5 So? Can't the electricity from the nuclear plant be used to reduce the coal to oil to power automobiles? (Or, electricity from the coal-fired power plant...) Win/win, surely?
Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-05 12:08||   2006-11-05 12:08|| Front Page Top

#6 NS - I'm not sure which country you're writing about. In the US, natural gas is used to produce
18.7 percent of all production. Nearly all power plants built over the past 15 years are fueled by natural gas.
Source
Natural gas can also be used to propel vehicles, this is the tie-in between electricity production and oil importation. Electricity can be used on railroads.
Currently the "market" in the US, near-sighted as always, has decided to import as much oil as it can pay for. The "commons externality" of US military resources and battle deaths to protect and stabilize major oil-producing regions (most of whose residents hate us and want to see us destroyed) is of no concern to the "market."
---- To Hell with this "market."
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-05 13:58||   2006-11-05 13:58|| Front Page Top

#7 You are way off the mark if you think we're in Iraq primarily because of the oil we import, although that is one of several interacting issues which present during this massive geopolitical realignment that's underway.
Posted by lotp 2006-11-05 14:18||   2006-11-05 14:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Given their proximity to the world's largest Muslim population, in Indonesia, it might be foolish for Australia not to consider nuclear weapons as well.
For now, they can depend on the American "nuclear umbrella" but what if the worst happens: the Dems win and are able to consolidate moonbat rule in America?
Imagine Dennis Kucinich as "Secretary of Peace," as some have suggested. The umbrella will be shredded by a chorus of Kumbaya policy-makers and peacenik media indoctrination.

Can the US really go the way of Helengrad (formerly New Zealand)? Best not to take a chance: Cobble up some nukes of your own, cobbers. The RAAF's trusty F-111s are an ideal platform for these, and F-18s can light up the jihadis at shorter range.

In any case, I would give the Oz boffins about 12 hours to put together a working thermo-nuke if the PM gives the go ahead.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-11-05 16:45||   2006-11-05 16:45|| Front Page Top

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