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ER — 9/10/2013 2:20:33 AM (archived)

You can't multiply Megawatts by tons. That's like multiplying horsepower by grams. It is meaningless.

And if 436 reactors each generate 30 tons of waste, then the total waste is 13,080 tons, not eleven million plus.

The energy theoretically available in a ton of waste is much, much less than the energy that is available in a ton of uranium. That's why its called waste, it no longer has much energy left in it.

I could go on.

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Raw data - ER - 9/8/2013 5:58:26 PM
- NSIDC status: - TB - 9/14/2013 5:46:31 AM
- Earth's energy balancing act simplified. - johannes - 9/10/2013 1:14:55 AM
  - You lost me right off the bat. - ER - 9/10/2013 2:20:33 AM
    - Communication failure and an error. - johannes - 9/10/2013 11:36:34 PM
      - Watts are a unit of power, not of energy. - ER - 9/11/2013 5:02:23 AM
        
        A collateral calculation. - ER - 9/11/2013 1:34:11 PM
        
        Interesting - johannes - 9/11/2013 11:05:04 PM
        
        Conclusion: not enough to matter. - ER - 9/12/2013 2:11:36 AM
        
        I like the detail of your explanation, but - johannes - 9/13/2013 2:52:58 AM
        
        Here's an experiment that shows what the universe thinks of what you think is true. - alcaray - 9/17/2013 1:12:01 AM
        
        Interesting experiment, I'd like to see - johannes - 9/19/2013 11:12:14 PM
        
        Then there is cooling: (by evaporation naturally) - johannes - 9/19/2013 11:28:11 PM
        
        Evaporation is just convection. - ER - 9/20/2013 1:02:49 PM
        
        That is just the point. - johannes - 9/20/2013 8:15:43 PM
        
        What's the point - ER - 9/20/2013 9:33:17 PM
        
        The point is simple but the explanation is not. - johannes - 9/21/2013 2:35:18 AM
        
        Then there is cooling: (by evaporation naturally) - johannes - 9/19/2013 11:25:49 PM
        
        Re: I like the detail of your explanation, but - TB - 9/13/2013 3:37:47 AM
- If one had a ton of material - - - - bowser - 9/9/2013 7:33:34 AM
  - Remember Carl Sagan's nuclear winter? - ER - 9/9/2013 2:51:06 PM

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