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Check out steelvipers greenpeace blog.

I have responded to his idiotic comment.

I'm not devoting another post to disproving everything he said, if you want to see it, there's a comment on his page.

I'll post the comment I left here too:

You're right, tritium isn't used in fission reactors. How ever, it IS a waste product produced by nuclear reactors. Don't tell me it didn't happen, it was all over my town's newspaper. Oh, and the texas comment was making a refrence to George Bush.

The whole point of that original entry  was not about fusion. It was about FISSION. As we know it, fission reactions create harmful radioactive waste that remains radioactive for thousands of years. That was the point I was making. You obviously have NOT done your research.

If you don't believe there was a tritium leak, look up any recent articles about the nuclear power plant in Braidwood, Illinois.

I have found multiple articles:
http://www.watertechonline.com/News.asp?mode=4&N_ID=60454

And this:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-tritium17.html

look at the bottom of the 2nd article.
There you have it. Tritium, a WASTE product of nuclear fission reactions, leaked into the surrounding town's ground water on EIGHT SEPARATE OCCAISIONS.

You clearly have NOT done your research.
Don't tell me I'm wrong. I live here.
I know what happened, I know that there is an elevated risk of cancer in the surrounding area. If the water wasn't safe to drink, then there is a problem. Nuclear power is just not safe, so please, stop trying.

If you truly honestly believe that I'm wrong, then I implore you to come to here, specifically braidwood, and live there for a while. While you're at it, have a couple cups of their local ground water.

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Yeah so good times.

Anyways.

E85.

It is the future of fuel.

We ARE running out of oil and something needs to be done. I'm sure steelviper disagrees, but that's ok, see, he's one of the people who can't listen to logic. Of course, should we fail to ever switch and then we run out of oil, I'll be able to say "ha, I told you so." That's a really good feeling. So is walking everywhere.

It's strange. I watched a video on ANWR the other day. It was called "Oil On Ice". One quote stuck out in my mind. I forget who said it, but it makes a great point:

"When we're addicted to drugs, we're told to cut off the supply. When we're addicted to oil, we're told to increase it."--The Bald Guy from that Movie I Watched

Something needs to be done. Personally, I suggest switching to E85. It will not only solve our oil problem, it is cleaner (it's made from 85% ethanol as opposed to the current 10%) and we have what we need to make tons of it. Corn. Ethanol comes from corn. Not to mention that it will benefit farmers who America is constantly screwing over.

People tend to argue that it'd be too hard to switch over.

Not true. It's a matter of giving the car some new software. It's really quite simple.

Other's might argue that it could slow the car down, etc. I know people often say that it will slow the car down because we have these hybrids (which are amazing cars) that have a 0-60 of around 15 seconds, much like my corolla. It's actually just the opposite. E85 has a typical octane rating around 105. That's more than premium gas, and the best part is that it costs as much as regular.

There's no reason we aren't switching other than that the oil companies would crumble.

Sorry for the lack of updates.

Ok, some genius (note the sarcasm) decided he'd try to challenge my stance on nuclear energy and he failed miserably.

 His comment can be viewed in the previous entry.

See, he's convinced that Fusion is the future of energy, or as he put it on his blog, "Nuclear Salvation".

No.

Bad idea.

This guy has done no research. How do I know this?

Ok, well think about it, as of now, to complete a fusion reaction, it takes MORE energy to produce it than the reaction itself produces.

confusing? A little. Basically, you'd be using more power than the reaction would generate. So when "steelviper" comes out and says that it could "power 1/3 of america forever", he's making a false statement. To say that is blatant ignorance. Hey bud, where do we get the energy to make the reaction happen? Oops, we forgot about that =X

Now for the big one. He comes on and tells me that it's clean. Ok, well see, that entire entry was about FISSION. Not fusion. Fission.

They are the complete opposite. That's like calling a liberal a conservative.

Fusion is the FUSING of two atoms. Two atoms being smashed together.

FISSION is the splitting of two atoms and we KNOW FOR A FACT that the waste created is toxic and that it remains toxic for thousands of years.

Since i've done little research on fussion, I don't know what kind of waste it creates. Until we actually complete a fusion reactor that is efficient, we won't really know what the negatives are.

And really, how safe can it be? We barely know how to contain it. It uses super magnets to contain the reaction right now. What happens if something breaks?

People need to think before they speak.