Pace of Climate Change Exceeds Estimates

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From the link at realy good comment

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Of the global warming debate, he said: "It’s one of the few times you’ve seen a sizable portion of scientists who ought to be objective take a political position and it’s coloring their objectivity."

And billvon says its the deniers who are being political. Guess there are others who see it differently

Of couse, the "consenus" is the all powerful

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PBMR - pebble bed modular reactor. One of the inherently safe designs. One is currently running in China. The idea is that pebbles (fuel elements with impermeable claddings) are added to the reactor as needed; used ones are taken out the bottom. If there is a loss of coolant accident, then the core heats up until natural convection takes over to cool it. You do not need any active cooling or control rods to keep the reactor from melting down, so you don't rely on pumps, heat exchangers, backup heat exchangers, water injection etc to be able to safely shut the plant down. It just goes to an 'idle temperature' and sits there until you restart it.

HTGR - high temperature gas reactor.* The PBMR is actually one of these, and these systems use helium (or some other gas) instead of water as a coolant. One of the big pluses for these sorts of reactors is that they reach very high temperatures, sufficient to separate hydrogen and oxygen in water. This means you can have a component of the reactor that generates hydrogen from water, and hydrogen is a good fuel both for making other fuels (like methane) and for making electricity (in fuel cells.) This, in my opinion, is the only way that hydrogen will ever be a practical fuel.

(otherwise known as "VHTR" or very high temperature reactor.)

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the easy and ultimate solution to man-induced co2-levels: cut down world population to approximatly 1 billion total. less people = less manmade carbon dioxide = less impact on the planet = better climate

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what are we waiting for. lets issue the new licences. it might even have a positive effect on the economy. think about all the construction workers that would be put to work.

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