I'm on 'Google Alerts' for things Nuclear, which comes up with many opportunities to add comments to on-line articles about varied nuclear subjects. Below is a copy of one of my responses to such an article and my hope is that anyone reading this might be disposed to respond in a similar manner to any article on which they might comment. Please help where you can to get votes on 38 degrees for LFTRs - would you all please ask your friends on facebook if they would care to vote also?
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The first-of-a-kind Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) could be up and running in 5 years, at the piddling cost of £300 million. There are half a dozen UK companies that could manufacture this (glorified) hot-salt chemical plant, so 5 years after that, 100 MWe modular LFTRs could be rolling off production lines at one per day, for £150 million each. In 2 years, we could replace all of our coal and gas fired power stations (LFTRs are load-following), at a cost of £30 billion per year for 2 years - saving £50 billion from the £110 billion Chris Huhne just announced in the Commons.
38 degrees is a Campaigning Organisation which can lobby parliament on behalf of important causes and your vote for LFTRs is needed. LFTR manufacture would create manufacturing jobs, growth and prosperity not seen in 3 generations. See: http://38degrees.uservoice.com/forums/78585-campaign-suggestions/suggestions/2017457-uk-manufacture-of-liquid-fluoride-thorium-reactors?ref=title
To generate electricity for a city of 1 million people for 1 year:___Mine 3,200,000 tonnes of coal - emit 8,500,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases and particulates - landfill 900,000 cubic metres of toxic/radioactive fly-ash.___OR___Mine 50,000 tonnes of uranium ore - emit no greenhouse gases - produce 24 tonnes of radiotoxic 'waste'.___OR___Mine 50 tonnes of equivalent thorium ore - emit no greenhouse gases - produce 0.8 tonnes of radiotoxic 'waste'.
Showing posts with label 38 Degrees. Show all posts
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13 July 2011
10 July 2011
38 Degrees -- The hottest Campaigning Group in town.
Vote for LFTRs, to get it to the front of the '38 Degrees' campaigns. There is no single, more important issue, to prevent the Government wasting £billions of our hard earned taxes on inconsequential ways of meeting our carbon targets. LFTRs is the safest and most economical way of meeting carbon targets and it doesn't matter whether or not you believe in global warming, because carbon targets will impact you - in your pocket.
Whatever we save, by getting the Government to commit, full-bore, to LFTRs, we can spend on other services we believe in. Only our gross negligence will result in us allowing 120 m high wind turbines to decorate pristine landscapes and coastlines. Only dullards would pay the exorbitant cost of trying to squeeze carbon dioxide molecules into places in which physics will not allow them to reside.
38 Degrees is a force to be reckoned with, when it comes to effective campaigning. Please use the following link, to cast up to 10 votes for LFTRs
http://38degrees.uservoice.com/forums/78585-campaign-suggestions/suggestions/2017457-uk-manufacture-of-liquid-fluoride-thorium-reactors?ref=title
Whatever we save, by getting the Government to commit, full-bore, to LFTRs, we can spend on other services we believe in. Only our gross negligence will result in us allowing 120 m high wind turbines to decorate pristine landscapes and coastlines. Only dullards would pay the exorbitant cost of trying to squeeze carbon dioxide molecules into places in which physics will not allow them to reside.
38 Degrees is a force to be reckoned with, when it comes to effective campaigning. Please use the following link, to cast up to 10 votes for LFTRs
http://38degrees.uservoice.com/forums/78585-campaign-suggestions/suggestions/2017457-uk-manufacture-of-liquid-fluoride-thorium-reactors?ref=title
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