"What I've said I have concerns about safe storage."

...That McCain opposes waste storage in his home state of Arizona.  Put it in someone eleses' back yard John?

Or should we spur the nuclear industry to recycle and neutralize the waste?  Safely, in place in sealed reactor vessels.  Without dangerous, astronomically expensive transport and handling and 10,000 year storage facilities.

Once they put the radioactive fuel in the heating element it should be designed to use the fuel completely and leave the sealed unit safe to rest in place.

It has to be sealed to keep anyone from getting any of the fuel out at anytime during it's radioactive lifetime.  It's the only feasible way to protexct from proliferation, terrorism, accidents, and so forth.

A sealed vessel that heats an energy transport fluid like water, without rendering it radioactive.  Designed in safety from ever reaching critical mass or leaking because of pressure or heat.

Can it be done?  And done economically?  If not, the only nuclear power that is safe and effective for power generation is on the Sun.  Used at a safe distance with solar, wind, wave, ocean current, biogas, and river flow power generation.

Ocean current power and tidal current power are  different, these are powered by planetary motion.  As are prevailing wind patterns, that in turn power ocean currents.

The steady power of the Gulf stream is powered by Earth rotation.  Good backup power.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

(to nowhere) Kate!  Hehey.  Hmmm, there's a bumpersticker there somewhere.  

(We could split the profits?)

It will only lower gas prices three cents per gallon.  I realized looking at a power tool catalogue, that spare batteries are being sold at around 2 dollars per watt of storage.

That puts your average daily one way commute at around 3000 dollars of batteries, at retail prices.  I'm thinking that mass production would reduce that retail price to around one dollar per watt hour.

These kind of hi-tech lithium batteries charge in an hour or so.  You can plugin at work, shopping, school.  Even a 15 mile range plugin hybrid with 1500 dollars worth of batteries could cover the average trip.

There is no excuse not to build this bridge to renewable electric transportation.  We need to build about 1000 more factories making these batteries.  I bet lots of americans would welcome a job building and operating these factories.

"Calin/McPain..building/drill, drill, drilling one long bridge...to nowhere!"

Yep, good bumpersticker.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

I am so glad to hear Obama called McCain on his voting record against renewables - I missed some of the debate, and it seemed much too soft-hitting...

For a man who voted 42 out of 44 times with Inhofe, he would have to be a complete sociopath to believe that he could make the media think he's a green candidate.

Yet he does.

By contrast, Obama's votes were all with Barbara Boxer's. Even though I don't like some of his dirty language (clean coal, nuclear) the votes are the bottom line.