from gas to electricity, good way to piss people off

[Vealmonkey]

Red-Rider, the by product of nuclear fission is not steam. People use the heat generated by nuclear fission to heat water to generate steam. Then the steam is actually in a double loop system. The first loop being heated by the fission process, the second loop is actually what moves the vanes in the turbines to generate power and make things move so all that equipment does not become contaminated by radiation. And reactor fuel "rods" have contained several different kinds of nuclear material. The spent fuel rods are generally contained on site in large pools of special "water" to keep the radiation levels down. There are problems of storage of the spent fuel rods as they do still have a level of radio activity left. And depending upon the element the half life or time that it takes for the radio active material to weaken to a point of half it's normal radio activity on some elements is over a hundred years. And that is just to half the point of it's spent radio active level. I spent a brief time with nuclear propulsion.

[factoryX]

which brings us to helium 3 and why the moon race is such a big deal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3

[Escanabajosh]

legalize industrial hemp and use hemp oil.

If the gov. would let our farmers grow it we could put it to so many uses. over 10,000 uses!

henery fords first model T ran on hemp, he even built a car in '41 that was 70% made of hemp fibers and ran on hemp!

we could grow all our own fuel (more then enough to meet curent demand) and never have to import oil again.

[Mr_RPM]

okay to clear some of the information up, oil isn't going anywhere. Oil is a natural resource that is formed from dead plankton, thats right plankton. Oil wells once empty are now full again. Also, Has anyone noticed how each time the gas prices went up they went back down immediately? As for electric cars like Tesla, yes they accelerate super fast but they weigh a freaking lot, and use most of the energy moving around. And it takes 10 plus hours to recharge, so it is completely useless. Whats even funnier is that most electric cars where not designed to drive on ice for example the prius, when it hits ice the electric brakes short out...LOL. But the biggest flaw with electric cars is that it causes more pollution to make than for you to drive your v8 bronco.

oil is made from plankton yes, and all forms of carbon. but to create amounts of oil needed takes millions of years, like diamonds. oil will regenerate, just not nearly fast enough.
our planet has its was on fixing itself, i just believe we are the problem. If we cant live in a Ectoparasite mannor and continue to live in a Ectoparasitoid manner we are doomed.

[1grindking]

the by product of nuclear fission is not steam... the half life or time that it takes for the radio active material to weaken to a point of half it's normal radio activity on some elements is over a hundred years. And that is just to half the point of it's spent radio active level. thanks for clearin that up vealmonkey. i dont know very much about nuke power but i know its conveniont & makes alot of power for a very long time thats why they run subs with it that can stay @ sea for yrs but thats if we dont care what we leave our kids to deal with...

[factoryX]

I am simply pointing out facts, all I know is that oil wells that where big in the 50's-60's are now full again. Plankton is also a huge percentage of the ocean to begin with, with it being one of the major sources of oxygen(70%), so when they die where do they go? lol, oil if not fossil fuel. And nuclear power is the future. Sorry, but once helium 3 is mined off the moon it will solve all of are power problems. A box the size of a small bedroom would power your house, forever...lol

[Vealmonkey]

Some of these concepts are just theories. Scientists at one thought when the atom bomb would be detonated, that it would cause a chain reaction that would end all life as it was known. Luckily that didn't happen, but atomic weaponry is still a humbling and horrendous to behold. There are scientists that believe the formation of oil deposits under the earths surface are just a natural by product of the constant ebb and flow of the molten products under the earths surface and will be continually renewable. Other scientists don't believe oil and gas and other items are not renewable. So alot is just theories and speculation. Alot of the scientific is still on the fence about Helium3. Many sceintists question what would happen when they fired up the worlds largest underground particle accelerator. Alot of ideas are simply letters and numbers in notebooks and computers and blackboards. Some are thoughts in the minds of people who are way smarter or crazier than I could ever imagine. Either way, I don't really think there is any 1 source that will be the magic answer for the worlds energy issues. It seems the world is too bent on doing stupid things as to worry about such things anyway.

[factoryX]

but they have proven that oil is from plankton? helium 3 is the next big step, and with little of it on earth we need to get to the moon before india, russia, china, etc.. The reason why it would benefit us is the fact it is safe to handle, rather than uranium.