The Nuclear Energy Agency -- an international agency created by the OECD to "assist its Member countries in maintaining and further developing, through international co-operation, the scientific, technological and legal bases required for the safe, environmentally friendly and economical use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes" -- issues a report claiming that nuclear power is just the thing for climate change. Didn't see that one coming!
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Orfintain Posted 9:17 am
20 Oct 2008
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Delay And Deny Posted 11:02 am
20 Oct 2008
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Charles Barton Posted 11:02 am
20 Oct 2008
Charles Barton
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Orfintain Posted 11:26 am
20 Oct 2008
but there are no holy grails
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Delay And Deny Posted 3:52 pm
20 Oct 2008
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21536/page1/
"I'm going to show you something I haven't showed anybody yet," said Daniel Nocera, a professor of chemistry at MIT, speaking this May to an auditorium filled with scientists and U.S. government energy officials. He asked the house manager to lower the lights. Then he started a video. "Can you see that?" he asked excitedly, pointing to the bubbles rising from a strip of material immersed in water. "Oxygen is pouring off of this electrode." Then he added, somewhat cryptically, "This is the future. We've got the leaf."
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rsmith02 Posted 2:47 am
21 Oct 2008
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rsmith02 Posted 2:49 am
21 Oct 2008
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21536/page1/
If it's really sunlight+ water = fuel, that's great. No need for a $10 billion+ nuke plant.
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