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PetroChina buys entire Alberta oilsands project

j-mac said:
We damned well should be building more nuclear in this country.
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We can store the waste in your basement, right? :mrgreen:
 
j-mac said:
We damned well should be building more nuclear in this country.


j-mac
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I agree. But before we do, we should be very careful about studying where they're going to be built. Sort of like giant oil pipeline.
 
AdamT said:
I agree. But before we do, we should be very careful about studying where they're going to be built. Sort of like giant oil pipeline.
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Yes, let's drag our feet, after all I am enjoying paying my $200 per month energy bill in a moderate climate.....Oh, and the joys of using energy as a political tool are just so wonderful....

j-mac
 
AdamT said:
Yep, any new jobs are good, no question. But of course they have to be weighed against the risks. Otherwise, hell, let's just build a string of nuclear reactors along the San Andreas fault? Think of all the jobs!
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Obtuse much?
 
Karl said:
We can store the waste in your basement, right? :mrgreen:
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Or in your head... Plenty of space there...:lamo

I kid, i kid.
 
AdamT said:
You think that company can handle all of our nuclear waste?
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So you don't want nuclear energy, no coal, no oil, no more dams for electrical power, no cutting trees and the BHO's investment in solar has been a money pit.

It seems you are only for the things you don't have.
 
Grant said:
So you don't want nuclear energy, no coal, no oil, no more dams for electrical power, no cutting trees and the BHO's investment in solar has been a money pit.

It seems you are only for the things you don't have.
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I'm all for nuclear power. But I'm not going to pretend that we don't have a problem with waste disposal, because we do. It's just, IMO, the lesser of evils.
 
Temporal said:
PetroChina buys entire Alberta oilsands project - Business - CBC News



Canada is the #1 supplier of oil to the United States, and now Canadian oil projects are owned and operated by the Chinese. Gotta love the irony.

I think it's a serious error in judgment for the Canadian government to abandon its "51% Canadian" policy, seeing as how no North American nation owns any stake in the tar sands. I really feel that both the U.S. and Canada are being devoured by foreign interests.
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Underestimating Chinese goals and willpower is a fatal mistake.​
 
AdamT said:
I'm all for nuclear power. But I'm not going to pretend that we don't have a problem with waste disposal, because we do. It's just, IMO, the lesser of evils.
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So you want more nuclear power plants built? Is that your way forward?
 
Grant said:
So you want more nuclear power plants built? Is that your way forward?
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I think that's part of the solution, but it's going to take a holistic approach. More nukes, more solar, more wind, more geothermal, more natural gas, and hopefully improvements in technology to clean up coal and oil emissions.
 
more electric power won't solve our oil problems
there has never been a death or serious injury at an American Nuclear power plant that where the nuclear part of it can be blamed...
likewise the spent fuel storage facilities located at those power plants....
 
UtahBill said:
more electric power won't solve our oil problems
there has never been a death or serious injury at an American Nuclear power plant that where the nuclear part of it can be blamed...
likewise the spent fuel storage facilities located at those power plants....
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More electric power can solve a lot of our oil problem. Approximately 65% of the oil we use is consumed in private vehicles. Private vehicles can be run on electricity.
 
AdamT said:
More electric power can solve a lot of our oil problem. Approximately 65% of the oil we use is consumed in private vehicles. Private vehicles can be run on electricity.
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And the electricity will need to be produced by coal and nuclear. As we essentially are not expanding our electric output to any degree at present, we are still just as screwed. And when we do produce it, we have to be economically competitive doing so, or we are just as screwed as such follies as Solyndra.
 
AdamT said:
I'm all for nuclear power. But I'm not going to pretend that we don't have a problem with waste disposal, because we do. It's just, IMO, the lesser of evils.
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You asked. "You think that company can handle all of our nuclear waste?" which is a rather negative response to a solution that has been ongoing for years, with varying different technologies available allover the world as well'

It's really too bad you didn't express the same doubts about the billions of dollars BHO wasted on his ridiculous whims. You didn't support them, did you?
 
AdamT said:
More electric power can solve a lot of our oil problem. Aipproximately 65% of the oil we use is consumed in private vehicles. Private vehicles can be run on electricity.
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Great! Than BHO can issue an edict shutting down all gas stations this week!
 
Grant said:
You asked. "You think that company can handle all of our nuclear waste?" which is a rather negative response to a solution that has been ongoing for years, with varying different technologies available allover the world as well'

It's really too bad you didn't express the same doubts about the billions of dollars BHO wasted on his ridiculous whims. You didn't support them, did you?
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I have no idea what you're talking about. There is a big problem with nuclear waste disposal. You disagree?
 
Grant said:
Great! Than BHO can issue an edict shutting down all gas stations this week!
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No, not really. Any other stupid comments?
 
AdamT said:
I have no idea what you're talking about. There is a big problem with nuclear waste disposal. You disagree?
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Why don't you list these problems you claim are there and then we'll look at it.
 
AdamT said:
More electric power can solve a lot of our oil problem. Approximately 65% of the oil we use is consumed in private vehicles. Private vehicles can be run on electricity.
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priced one lately?
 
AdamT said:
No, not really. Any other stupid comments?
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Oh, so the technology isn;t there yet? Still need oil?

Then what was your point on cars running on electricity? That it can be done?

Thats been true for generations.

That it is a feasible idea now or in the near future? Of course not.

The fact is that there are types who want all traditional sources of energy stopped or curtailed without having any alternatives in place. It seems they really do believe that a president with no business experience whatsoever, in fact no achievements to speak of at all, can solve the world's energy problems.

"You spend 16 trill and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt".

Let's all sing along to Barrack Obama's campaign song!
 
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