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    #32
    frootfancy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭frootfancy


    "Isn't most of the old glow in the dark dumped off Craggy island these days."

    Or is it the waste-pipe outlet from Father Jack's underpants hamper?


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    #33
    netwhizkid
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    Originally Posted by frootfancy
    Or is it the waste-pipe outlet from Father Jack's underpants hamper?

    Isn't Fr. Jessop still in there ?

    On Topic. Ireland needs a sustainable energy source and with CAP on the way out and farming wallowing in the mess it created. Wouldn't Biomass seem like a goos idea we have the perfect climate for Willow (thats the Sally tree to you and me) We could be completely Sustainable for our energy and home heating need through willow wood pellets. If only this government had vision.

    Regards netwhizkid


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    #34
    frootfancy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭frootfancy


    Apparently he escaped Sahwshank Redemption style down the sewage pipe.

    Biomass is a very credible energy source. Recently there have been dramatic improvements in harnessing wave energy too. Its apparent that just one renewable source type won't be enough. its frustrating people are looking for wholesale answers rather than just taking the plunge and seeing what amalgamations of technology can do. Bit of solar, bit of thermal, bit of wave, bit of wind. Its the only way its gonna work.

    On an aside note have you seen that new Saab that runs on Ethanol? Its great, you can fill it up and get hammered at the same time. Just think if only they could make a car run on meths for harry ramps...


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    #35
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users Posts: 7,710 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    frootfancy wrote:
    On an aside note have you seen that new Saab that runs on Ethanol? Its great, you can fill it up and get hammered at the same time. Just think if only they could make a car run on meths for harry ramps...
    Brazil have been running cars on alcohol for a good while afaik


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    #36
    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    frootfancy wrote:
    Biomass is a very credible energy source.

    Not a clean one, however; it is still a CO2 contributor.


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    #37
    frootfancy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭frootfancy


    Although not on the scale that fossil fuel power sources are currently. Another reason why the answer to sustainable energy lies not with one single renewable source. Also with biomass energy you're not left with giant flasks full of waste that's likely to still be around in a few hundred years time.


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    #38
    axtradub12
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    I wonder if those Iodine tablets still work? :D


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    #39
    the_syco
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    Moriarty wrote:
    "New" variants of nuclear fission reactors are the way to go (until we properly lick fusion reactors) in my opinion. I'd much prefer if the irish government went nuclear instead of building more fossil fuel plants.
    Fission power plant won't be built for another 20 years. Well: thats how long it'll take to build it anyhoo's.

    =-=

    The US has nuclear power plants. And lots of [strike]Nevada[/strike] desert land to store the "old" stuff in.
    netwhizkid wrote:
    We need thermal energy, just drill deep enough and it will eventually get so hot to boil steam ala energy all from the earths heat.
    If a fissure is created, then magma could come up, and doom us all. Look up "yellowstone park". Its estimated it'll blow in the next 200 years, or so.

    =-=

    And yeah, I support nuke power.


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    #40
    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    the_syco wrote:
    Fission power plant won't be built for another 20 years. Well: thats how long it'll take to build it anyhoo's.

    Fusion, but this is broadly correct. The first fission power plant was built in England in the 50s (Calder Hall 1); the first fusion power plant has just been given the go-ahead in France, and will be completed in 2015. That will just be a proof of concept though; if it even works properly (which now seems likely but not definite), it'll be a few years more before it begins deployment as a practial power source.


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    #41
    rsynnott
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    the_syco wrote:

    If a fissure is created, then magma could come up, and doom us all. Look up "yellowstone park". Its estimated it'll blow in the next 200 years, or so.

    This isn't actually very realistic, and could only really potentially happen at a fault line or other area of geological activity. However, this sort of drilling isn't as trivial as it sounds, by a long shot.


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    #42
    bonkey
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    rsynnott wrote:
    Not a clean one, however; it is still a CO2 contributor.

    But isn't the point with biomass that you're using a rapid-carbon-fixing growth-process to grow what you burn, so you're removing carbon from the atmosphere conincidental with releasing it?

    I know its not a balanced equation (there is a net emission), but just how relatively dirty/clean is biomass as an option?

    jc


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