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Post by Whore of Spamylon on Apr 28, 2010 18:07:21 GMT -5
Moar nuclear power. Windmills and solar panels can't sustain current energy use at their current efficiency. Nuclear is the best option until they can. We're always going to need petroleum for plastic products, but that's why there needs to be a focus on recycling it specifically. Out of curiosity, is there any CO2 output from petroleum that goes into plastics? I don't mean from manufacturing, but rather output from the petroleum that goes into the plastic.
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Post by Ian1732 on Apr 28, 2010 19:48:59 GMT -5
You know, I personally think it would be pretty awesome if we set up a bunch of nuclear power plants on the moon, and then shipped the electricity back to Earth using shuttles that are essentially giant batteries. Of course, I'm not so sure this would be efficient, but...
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Post by Mira on Apr 28, 2010 19:56:50 GMT -5
If we ever use the moon for power it will be helium-3 for nuclear fusion power. Though that's far in the future, and we'd need a lot of it.
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Post by Vene on Apr 28, 2010 20:05:01 GMT -5
Moar nuclear power. Windmills and solar panels can't sustain current energy use at their current efficiency. Nuclear is the best option until they can. We're always going to need petroleum for plastic products, but that's why there needs to be a focus on recycling it specifically. Out of curiosity, is there any CO2 output from petroleum that goes into plastics? I don't mean from manufacturing, but rather output from the petroleum that goes into the plastic. As in from the actual chemical reactions? I mean, I guess it's possible that they could lose a carbon as part of the process, but that's kind of self defeating. This isn't an easy question to answer, because there are so many different plastics and they can be made in so many different ways. I'm also fairly certain the methods that companies use to make them are trade secrets.
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Post by worlder on Apr 28, 2010 20:18:27 GMT -5
I'm also fairly certain the methods that companies use to make them are trade secrets. Man it is about time they find new trade secrets, because some secrets need to be made public for advancement in quality of the product.
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Post by Vene on Apr 28, 2010 20:25:18 GMT -5
I'm also fairly certain the methods that companies use to make them are trade secrets. Man it is about time they find new trade secrets, because some secrets need to be made public for advancement in quality of the product. Okay then, you spend multiple months of labor, as well a thousands of dollars worth of money on equipment, and thousands of dollars of equipment developing something new and then give it away for free. Because that is what you're asking them to do.
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Post by davedan on Apr 28, 2010 20:56:44 GMT -5
That's actually the idea behind patents. That you have exclusive use of your process for x number of years but everyone else can see how it's done and after x number of years is up everyone can use it.
That's why some people, like coca cola, prefer to keep it a secret in the hope that no-one else figures out the process.
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on Apr 28, 2010 22:05:11 GMT -5
That's actually the idea behind patents. That you have exclusive use of your process for x number of years but everyone else can see how it's done and after x number of years is up everyone can use it. That's why some people, like coca cola, prefer to keep it a secret in the hope that no-one else figures out the process. Not just Coca-Cola
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Post by dew927 on Apr 28, 2010 23:20:59 GMT -5
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Post by renaissanceblonde on Apr 28, 2010 23:38:41 GMT -5
.....
And America's the 'leader of the free world' why...?
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Post by ironbite on Apr 29, 2010 0:25:39 GMT -5
We've got bigger guns then the rest of the world.
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Post by renaissanceblonde on Apr 29, 2010 1:22:45 GMT -5
We've got bigger guns then the rest of the world. Only because you and Russia got into a penis-measuring competition...
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on Apr 29, 2010 1:32:48 GMT -5
The Cold War sure was fun.
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Post by MaybeNever on Apr 29, 2010 1:34:06 GMT -5
Just another in an unbroken string of American victories on matters that for the most part we neither understood nor really cared that much about.
UNBROKEN STRING
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Post by m52nickerson on Apr 29, 2010 6:26:48 GMT -5
Great, they are now saying that the leak is closer to 210,000 gallons per day.
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