ITER = Nuclear Salvation
I pretty much signed up so I could get this out. The ITER that greenpeace is protesting is easily the best solution we have for alternative fuel and for power. The article about it states information that pertains to fusion reactors and it is evident that whoever wrote it didn't even bother to research nuclear fusion.
The article states that nuclear fusion will give off harmful radioactive waste. Sadly this is not true since fusion is a clean process that uses tritium and deuterium, not plutonium and uranium.
It also says that this mythical "nuclear waste" that it produces would be used to make nuclear weapons. As mentioned above, this is not possible. They pretty muched based all of their arguements off of fission reactors.
A single fusion reactor would be able to power 1/3 of the US for a virtually infinite amount of time, because once the reaction is able to sustain itself, it can last for as long as we wish for it to operate.
The fact that greenpeace opposes it shows how informed they are of some of the issues they protest against, and shows their unwillingness to do actual research on it As far as I can tell, some idiot probably saw the word "Nuclear" in the name and went nuts because they don't know jack about anything in nuclear fusion. What a great uninformed organization.
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steelviper
Student at University of Texas at Austin
Dripping Springs, TX USA
Screw Greenpeace and screw hybrids. They only convert air pollution into ground pollution. Fusion reactors rule. I have canines and eat animals. E85 puts out twice as many hydrocarbons as gas, and cars get less fuel economy with e85 compared with their gas counterparts. Tesla's new roadster (electric) and Caparo's new T1 (lightweight cost effective exotic materials demonstrator and future king of supercars) are the types of cars we should be driving. Lightweight, fast, aerodynamic, yet still get really good mileage, and able to withstand 200mph crashes (The Caparo). 51% of all automibiles on the road today are trucks, and this has got to change. Stop driving trucks (they aren't fun to drive anyway), stop making large heavy cars for fat people, as punishment for them being fat, because studies show that cars with fat people in them get worse gas mileage then the same car with me in it.
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