[OSM-talk] radioactivity

[John Smith]

--- On Tue, 11/8/09, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:

> why should we (or you) focus on the development of an
> industry-scale-technology with high potential risk, if the
> sun sends
> far more energy for free than we need, without either the
> risk of a
> MCA nor the waste-problem, which also scales much better
> (less
> dependance from big industries and the risk that they set
> profit
> before safety) and offers the possibility of decentralized
> energy
> production? The only reason I see are lobbyists ;-)

Production of solar panels aren't at present cheap nor particularly efficient, especially those made for mass consumption, they also use rare earth materials some of which will be depleted before we get anywhere near depleting oil.

Further more there has been some spectacular industrial disasters involving non-nuclear and all the polution companies get away with in developing nations is a joke.

Things like Boron reactors would be safe, simply because they aren't naturally unstable, they have to be made unstable at the time of the reaction.