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May 2, 2009 8:14am by David Farrar

General Debate 2 May 2009

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reid

they [nuke power stns] are thousands of times more efficient [than wind turbines].

Yeah but mattyroo, does that calculation take into account the energy and resources required to safely manage the waste output over its lifetime?

No?

Is this a worry?
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May 2, 2009 9:03pm
greenfly

getstaffed – you have misread my statement. Nevertheless, it is a salutory lesson on how intolerant you are of someone expressing a point of view that differs from yours. The details of the discussion aside – it seemed a reasonable thing to debate, hardly contraversial and yet within a very short time you are slagging me off as being a troll and full of shit. If I was attacking some dearly held right-wing concept I’d understand, but a discussion on the carrying capacity of copper??? Let’s allow that you are correct – does that mean that I’m ‘full of shit’ and a troll? You’re an angry fellow indeed.
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May 2, 2009 9:04pm
RainbowGlobalWarming

*yawn* you are a droll troll greenfly.
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May 2, 2009 9:08pm
getstaffed

greenfly – No, I’ve misread nothing. It’s your propensity to twist and distort the truth that’s at issue here, not copper. I am angry at nothing, save perhaps your dishonesty. You are a troll – you’re here to disrupt, not to contribute. You are full of shit – everytime you comment that becomes clearer.
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May 2, 2009 9:12pm
mattyroo

No, it does not take into account the storage or managing of any waste, but considering how “cheap”, resource wise, electricity generated from nuke energy is, it is of no consequence.

And the waste that is generated by a nuke station that has to be handled by a storage facility is very small in the scheme of things. One wrecked wind turbine per year would take up more space in a landfill than all the toxic waste from the nuke power stations in the US in an underground storage facility.
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May 2, 2009 9:13pm
greenfly

sweet! Then fuck off I must. Sour fuckers.
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May 2, 2009 9:13pm
reid

And the waste that is generated by a nuke station that has to be handled by a storage facility is very small in the scheme of things. One wrecked wind turbine per year would take up more space in a landfill than all the toxic waste from the nuke power stations in the US in an underground storage facility.

Yes it’s a bit of a shame we can’t put A-grade nuclear waste inside anything less than a well-guarded sealed concrete mountain for the next ten thousand years as opposed to burying it in a landfill then selling it off as “Green Acres.”

When you look at it like that mate, I personally think it is of some consequence.
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May 2, 2009 9:17pm
Patrick Starr

“how intolerant you are of someone expressing a point of view that differs from yours”

FFS greenfly – thats your second one today!!!!

You bastards are the worlds worse for silencing opposing views. Your party holds a very very small minority shareholding in the grand scheme of democratic expression (by virtue of a flawed MMP system) but could win a supreme award for marketing in your ability to smear any opposing views. Dont come here with that hard done by freedom of speech bullshit. – wanker.
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May 2, 2009 9:23pm
mattyroo

reid Says:

“Yes it’s a bit of a shame we can’t put A-grade nuclear waste inside anything less than a well-guarded sealed concrete mountain for the next ten thousand years as opposed to burying it in a landfill then selling it off as “Green Acres.””

I wasn’t proposing that…. but I would give greenfly some to put on his cornies each morning. Might give the little puke some backbone.
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May 2, 2009 9:23pm
reid

Seriously mattyroo, what is the answer to the waste disposal issue?
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May 2, 2009 9:36pm
Patrick Starr

burning waste to energy costs $270 per tonne, In Auckland the cost of landfill is only $27 per tonne. ……- go figure. and only that low cost is inflated by the RMA

nevertheless read the Waste Minimisation Act. It’s now law what you should do
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May 2, 2009 9:40pm
reid

nuke waste Patrick.
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May 2, 2009 9:44pm
Patrick Starr

deep deep in a landfill
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May 2, 2009 9:47pm
getstaffed

Drill a holes 2km into the crust using oil drilling technology… and drop the waste down there. A gaint long-drop for the nastiest, dont-want-to-see-this-ever-again stuff.
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May 2, 2009 10:08pm
Jack5

Tojo (whoops mistyping, sorry Tuija) at 4.32 confirms resolutely that the Greens are Luddites, with their rejection of industrialised society. Thank you!

As for blocking opencast mining. Surely Turia you must have heard of the Happy Valley nutters trying to hinder mining because of a colony of snails that are also found elsewhere in the South Island. These Green blowhards have even chained themselves to rail lines and demonstrated outside Solid Energy’s HQ. They have cost NZ taxpayers millions.

As for the Greems, which Tuija and Greenflu pillory as a typo… Don’t they know Greems are drowsy, dreaming Greens laid back, happy and quiet after puffing. Sweet dreams, Greems.
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May 2, 2009 10:15pm
mattyroo

Reid, In my opinion, the best answer is a single containment facility for the world, probably managed by the US, as they have already done most of the work in developing one. One day with some luck we might see a working nuke fusion system, that would then negate this need. Until then we have to be sensible about generation, and wind, hydro etc is far from sensible. For the interim, clean coal, hot rocks and traditional nuclear are the most practical technologies available.
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May 2, 2009 10:15pm
Patrick Starr

ahem – for the non-red blooded kiwi males – we want the Reds to win this game at the moment
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May 2, 2009 10:18pm
burt

getstaffed

I think the giant long drop theory gets the wobbles when earthquakes and volcanoes enter the frame. 10,000 years is a long time to second guess that what’s 2k down today is not rumbling around and infiltrating underground water systems, making it’s way to the surface etc.

I always wonder why if it’s collected by concentrating materials through mining why it couldn’t be ploughed through the mine tailings creating a concentration no higher than naturally occurring? Might be a bit of a pig to find a way to de-concentrate it but hey we were smart enough to work out how to concentrate it. Perhaps it’s perfectly possible but by the time we have done it we would have used all the electricity produced to process the waste…

Umm, back to the windmills for a while…
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May 2, 2009 10:27pm
reid

Better to hurl it into the sun in 50 years when we have reliable launch vehicles, burt.
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May 2, 2009 10:37pm
Tuija

Tojo (whoops mistyping, sorry Tuija) at 4.32 confirms resolutely that the Greens are Luddites, with their rejection of industrialised society. how you get from what I said heavens knows talk about one eyed

They try to smash opencast West Coast opencast coal mining ,suddenly becomes blocking opencast mining. and yes I have heard of happy valley and itse fragile eco system

Jack you have some preconceived ideas about Green Party supporters which are far from the truth
But hey WTF
night all
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May 2, 2009 11:14pm
Banana Llama

Space Elevators people, look them up, it would only cost 10 billion to set one up in Geo sync at the Equator.
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May 3, 2009 12:24am
burt

Banana Llama

The smart operators would be buying up land around the equator about now. 🙂
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May 3, 2009 10:43am

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