tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70027882011-08-27T17:12:47.121-04:00Energy - how should we collect it, use it, and live with the results? And there is a Canadian way of thinking about this topic that is unique and matters. Intelligent life can be energetic if the boundaries are understood. This site analyzes the limits and recommends the levels.Randal Leavitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13529254319710800686noreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7002788.post-68236063400144373972009-03-09T11:09:00.008-04:002009-03-12T23:18:13.591-04:00

Energy flows. It moves from one region to another. It bumps into constraints as it flows, and causes these constraints to change: perhaps to heat up, or perhaps to move. The specific effect on the constraint depends on how the energy flow interacts with it. The key point here is that these interactions are repeatable - they happen in the same way every time. This means that people can study the

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Here are some interesting Canadian initiatives:Energy ProbeandThe Natural Resources Stewardship ProjectYou can supplement these Canadian perspectives with ideas from:Cool It!andThe Bottomless WellJudging from the above, Canadians should be making hard-headed, wealth increasing energy decisions very different from those being proposed by our political leaders.Energy Probe started all this for me.

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Participating in the nuclear renaissance involves a lot more than building and operating fission based electricity generators. Many international collaborative projects are taking place, all aimed at improving nuclear technology. Canada has a leadership role in a number of these initiatives, and provides key research in other areas. The following list summarizes what I have been able to find

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IBM has set up an advisory council for nuclear power - what does this mean?The Industry Talk section of the World Nuclear News web site reported that such a council held its first meeting in 2007 December. The results of this meeting are summarized here: Key 2008 Issues for Nuclear Power.The key concern is the aging of the nuclear industry work force, combined with the internet raised new

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Canada is joining the "Global Nuclear Energy Partnership" (GNEP):Canada to join Global Nuclear Energy PartnershipOne of the GNEP partners actually noticed this momentous decision and gave it a favourable nod: DOE Statement on Canada Joining the Global Nuclear Energy PartnershipGNEP originally included: China, France, Japan, Russia, and the United States.Eleven more countries signed up at the

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The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) announced on 2007 Oct 31 that it wants comments about the Integrated Power System Plan (IPSP) recently released by the Ontario Power Authority (OPA).The OEB has to review the IPSP to make sure that it will accomplish what the Ontario Minister of Energy asked for, at a reasonable cost.How does one conduct such a review? Well, you make a list of the specific items

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The InterAcademy Council published:Lighting the way: Toward a sustainable energy futureThis document was written by people who have well established positions as administrators, academics, and researchers in scientific fields such as physics, chemistry, system analysis, and biology. I dug into it hoping to find the hard headed, skeptical logic of a physics text book. That didn't happen. I

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The UK government has asked for comments about nuclear power. The consultation web site is:http://nuclearpower2007.direct.gov.uk/The UK government nuclear power policy is summarized here:The Future of Nuclear Power: Consultation DocumentThe UK government wants comments that add to the information in the Consultation Document. The document is organized around eighteen questions, with the

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To what extent do you believe that tackling climate change and ensuring the security of energy supplies are critical challenges for the UK that require significant action in the near term and a sustained strategy between now and 2050?The UK must ensure that its population has enough energy for a good standard of living. Given the changes that are coming this means that much more energy will be

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Do you agree or disagree with the Government's views on carbon emissions from new nuclear power stations? What are your reasons? Are there any significant considerations that you believe are missing? If so, what are they?Disagree. The UK government states that nuclear power carbon emissions are about the same as wind generated electricity. This estimate is much too pessimistic for nuclear power.

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Do you agree or disagree with the Government's views on the security of supply impact of new nuclear power stations? What are your reasons? Are there any significant considerations that you believe are missing? If so, what are they?Disagree. Diversity does not improve energy stability if inferior technologies constitute the diversity. Each candidate technology for a diversified energy mix must

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Do you agree or disagree with the Government's views on the economics of new nuclear power stations? What are your reasons? Are there any significant considerations that you believe are missing? If so, what are they?The economic value of a new nuclear power station is determined by non-technical factors. If frivolous legal challenges are allowed to delay construction then new power stations will

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Do you agree or disagree with the Government's views on the value of having nuclear power as an option? What are your reasons? Are there any significant considerations that you believe are missing? If so, what are they?Disagree. The future need for energy and electricity is easy to predict - a lot more will be needed. The UK government claims that this is difficult to foresee. I think it is

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Do you agree or disagree with the Government's views on the safety, security, health and non-proliferation issues? What are your reasons? Are there any significant considerations that you believe are missing? If so, what are they?Disagree. The UK government has not considered radiation hormesis in its assessment of the risks of radiation exposure. Increasing low dose radiation exposure improves

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Do you agree or disagree with the Government's views on the transport of nuclear materials? What are your reasons? Are there any significant considerations that you believe are missing? If so, what are they?Disagree. The UK government's approach is based on theories of radiation exposure that have been experimentally shown to be wrong. Low dose exposure is not harmful. So the risks are not "

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Do you agree or disagree with the Government's views on waste and decommissioning ? What are your reasons? Are there any significant considerations that you believe are missing? If so, what are they?Vigorously disagree. First, anyone who describes spent fuel from thermal reactors as "waste" just does not understand nuclear power. The term "waste" has been pushed forward by nuclear opposition

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What are the implications for the management of existing nuclear waste of taking a decision to allow energy companies to build new nuclear power stations?Some of the new reactors must be fast reactors that will burn the spent fuel accumulated to date from thermal reactors. That is the most advantageous means for exploiting this spent fuel treasure. Today's spent fuel must not be buried; it must

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What do you think are the ethical considerations related to a decision to allow new nuclear power stations to be built? And how should these be balanced against the need to address climate change?The ethical considerations are overwhelming - similar to throwing a rope to a drowning person. Energy is needed to make human life less destructive. The burning of coal, wood, and dung has to stop.

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Do you agree or disagree with the Government's views on environmental issues? What are your reasons? Are there any significant considerations that you believe are missing? If so, what are they?Disagree. The Government has wrongly assessed the impact of nuclear power stations. New stations can be built underground, leaving the surface intact, undisturbed. Moreover, this can be done in the middle

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Do you agree or disagree with the Government's views on the supply of nuclear fuel? What are your reasons? Are there any significant considerations that you believe are missing? If so, what are they?Disagree. The UK government has not adequately considered several factors that significantly increase the availability of fission fuel. First, thorium can be used to produce heat from fission.

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Do you agree or disagree with the Government's views on the supply chain and skills capacity? What are your reasons? Are there any significant considerations that you believe are missing? If so, what are they?Agree. However, the UK government appears to be analyzing the situation with the assumption that today's technology will be used exclusively for new nuclear plants. This pedestrian

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Do you agree or disagree with the Government's views on reprocessing? What are your reasons? Are there any significant considerations that you believe are missing? If so, what are they?Disagree. Reprocessing to cycle plutonium back into thermal reactors is not practical. It does not close the fuel cycle, and increases resource utilization by no more than 20%, while making the spent fuel harder to

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Are there any other issues or information that you believe need to be considered before taking a decision on giving energy companies the option of investing in nuclear power stations? And why?Yes. The positive benefits of rational and scientific thinking need to be defended. Many groups are putting forward poorly thought out ideas with the intention of misleading large numbers of people, and

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In the context of tackling climate change and ensuring energy security, do you agree or disagree that it would be in the public interest to give energy companies the option of investing in new nuclear power stations?Clearly, the UK government has to have new nuclear power stations built. Not doing so would be suicidal and irrational. It is obvious that the public benefits from these

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Are there other conditions that you believe should be put in place before giving energy companies the option of investing in new nuclear power stations? (for example, restricting build to the vicinity of existing sites, or restricting build to approximately replacing the existing capacity)Yes - new nuclear power stations should be built underground, in the middle of towns and cities. This

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Do you think these are the right facilitative actions to reduce the regulatory and planning risks associated with such investments? Are there any other measures that you think the Government should consider?The proposed actions are incomplete, contradictory, impractical, and uncertain. They will delay the development of clean, safe power for much too long, and will result in serious economic

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I purchased the "Nobodys Fuel" DVD fromhttp://www.nobodysfuel.com/It is excellent. You should buy several copies and give them to everyone interested in energy.The author is H. Douglas Lightfoot, Canadian, and a member of the Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre at McGill University in Montreal. He has been working on this presentation since 1992, as a self financed and independent

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Very white clouds result when water is suspended in the atmosphere as drops less than a millionth of a meter in diameter. These clouds reflect a large amount of sunlight back into space. We know how to artificially create such clouds with a water sprayer. A cloud produced in this way dissipates in less than a week as the drops evaporate into a gaseous form. Canada should install a number of

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What are we trying to do with all this discussion about energy? There seems to be a consensus that we want to turn off the carbon dioxide vents to reduce global heating. The problem is that the first person to turn off a vent is also the first person to pay some of the cost of this change. The last person out of the oven pays the least. If you can wait the others out they may have to pay most

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Nuclear Power in Canada and Beyondby Roger SteedRoger Steed needs your help to get his book published - a book that will increase public understanding and acceptance of nuclear power.Mr. Steed is collaborating with General Store Publishing House (GSPH) in Renfrew, Ontario. Their senior editor has reviewed the manuscript and recommended to Tim Gordon, the publisher, that they publish the book.

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I've read enough anti-nuclear web sites to recognize the patterns in their writing. A few themes appear repeatedly, sometimes with almost the same wording, providing a mantra for the faithful. Constant repetition keeps these memes alive, shoring up the spirits of the environmentalist foot soldiers sent out into the dangerous world to collect donations. The principal hooks are:wastecost and

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The answer to the ultimate question is "42" according to Douglas Adams' book, "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", the very number that the Ontario government decided to pay for a kilowatt-hour of electricity produced by a photovoltaic panel. Is this a coincidence? I think not. Both the Ontario price and Adams' book are serious attempts at humour, attempts to make us realize how silly we are

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Submission Date: 2006 Jan 31 To:Coordinator, Energy EconomicsOffice of Energy Supply and Competition880 Bay Street, 3rd FloorToronto, Ontario, M7A2C1PHONE: (416) 325-6972 FAX: (416) 325-6972From:Randal Leavitt[TBD - address][TBD - telephone][TBD - email]Topic:Supply Mix Advice ReportDecember 2005 EBR Registry Number: PO05E0001 http://www.powerauthority.on.ca/Report_Static/157.htmPosition

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Ontario needs new nuclear reactors. If the government does not buy CANDU reactors from AECL I think AECL will go out of business. The Ontario Liberals don't want to eliminate hundreds of engineering jobs in Ontario.However, CANDU reactors are second generation technology. Fourth generation reactors are being deployed in India, Russia, Japan, and China. Canada is having a tough time staying

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I spend a lot of effort crawling through the web, looking for items that can extend my understanding of nuclear fission. Usually this consists of jumping from web site to web site based on links that others think are interesting, or I end up doing searches with various tools and scanning through their returns looking for new sites. This got me thinking about the differences between search engines

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The used once fuel from CANDU reactors in Canada is a vast energy reserve. We now know how to build fast reactors that can utilize it. There is enough energy held in this fuel to provide all of Canada's energy needs for a hundred years. That is a century of clean, free energy without any need for mining - completely clean energy without any green house gas emissions of any kind. None. Anyone

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Scientific AmericanMarch 2005This issue of Scientific American includes an article titled:"How Did Humans First Alter Global Climate"by William F. Ruddiman.The author points out that three varying cycles occur as the Earth orbits the sun. The Earth's axis of rotation changes direction over time, the distance from the Earth to the Sun at mid-summer varies, and the shape of the Earth's orbit

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A major information source made the following claim this month (2005 Jan): "Here's one nut the nuclear industry can't crack: disposal." Well, I saw red: There is no waste produced by this generation of nuclear reactors. The fuel that has passed through a CANDU reactor is stored at the reactor site. All of it. It is not waste. In fact, it could be reused as fuel again and again, to produce

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On September 14, 2000 a group of Canadian environmentalists published a news release on the web: NUCLEAR POWER IS NO SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE The document is signed by several people giving their names and affiliations, so I assume that it still represents their beliefs. I read this document for the first time a few weeks ago (around 2004 October) and smiled. If I had read it in 2000 I

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Levelized Unit Energy Cost (LUEC) The LUEC is a means for calculating the cost of a unit of energy. It does this in a manner that allows one form of technology to be compared with another. It includes all the factors that affect the total cost, and views them over a long interval so that end game operations such as plant decommissioning can be factored in. Now there are problems with this

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Unlike the other energy industries that only leave a legacy of exhausted energy sources, pollution, useless equipment, and perhaps even a cooked planet resulting from carbon-dioxide induced heating, the nuclear energy industry is building up a fabulous fortune for future generations. Most nuclear fuel used today is uranium obtained from mines. About 1% of the uranium in the ore is fissionable

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The discussion of nuclear energy in Canada is complicated by everyone's strongly held views. The distrust, fear, and dislike that people have for the nuclear energy industry is pretty clear. I was a member of this distrusting constituency until I took a closer look. After a couple of years of investigation I now believe that the nuclear energy industry can provide important benefits to Canada

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There is no question about the safety of CANDU reactors in operation. And we know how to store the nuclear fuel that has been used once. So the nuclear energy cycle is exceptionally clean and safe from the operational stage on. But what about the earlier stages of this process, the mining and refining steps? There are lots of handling, moving, processing, and storing tasks involved. How safe

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Canada must begin the immediate construction of new CANDU reactors at the maximum rate that the nation can afford until we have eliminated the use of oil, gas, and coal. This includes the industrial sector, transportation (no more gasoline powered cars), home heating and cooling, and electricity. Why do we have to do this? Answer: (1) The Canadian worker needs a large supply of energy to

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The price of gasoline is high now, staying high, and may get higher. We can do something about it, but we don't want to. Gasoline prices wobble up and down, causing all sorts of consternation that sells newspapers. People are filling up and driving off without paying as an act of defiance. There are better ways to do this. Gasoline is a minor expense item for a conventional household - about

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OK - this will be a discussion about energy - how we make it, use it, and live with the results. I want to promote an understanding of this issue that supports human life and the advance of knowledge. I want to focus the data available so that readers will have the information needed to make good choices. Objective, fact based, independent thinking will be the knife that cuts this pudding.

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