by Goldark » Wed Apr 14, 2004 4:38 pm
This discussion has taken an interesting turn.<p>Here in Italy we have a ban on nuclear plants, and, interesting enough, we buy electric energy from our neighbor(sp?), like France which has a lot of nuclear plants, even relatively near the border with Italy....<p>About nuclear wastes, I'm no technician, but from what I know there are two main types, one is plutonium, which is reused as nuclear fuel in plutonium plants, the other is depleted uranium, and if you haven't lived in a cave for the last 5 years, you should know it's used to make the tip of missiles and bombs, since it adds a LOT of weight and adds to the penetrative power.<p>As I know a lot of fuss has been made about nuclear energy, and from my point of view is relatively safe, I advaise anyone to read some material about Chernobil to understand how diffucult is to make a nuclear reactor melt (yes, it's not badly written it's HARD to cause a meltdown), and he other nuclear incidents are so low that I consider nuclear power no less dangerous compared to other commonly used sources, think about fossil fuels and global warming.<p>I agree about saving power, wasting is always wrong.<p>I warn you Hubbs, a friend of mine left his PC on for a whole year downloading and recording what e downloaded (he turned it off every 3 days for an hour at max), and six months after he decided he had enough stuff, he lost, in this order, the micoprocessor (a PIII 800), the HD, graphic card, and power supply (!!).<br><p>[size=small][Edit by Goldark on [TIME]1081960756[/TIME]][/size]