Comments | mlc13: The Green Party

mlc13

The Green Party

Jun 03, 2010 12:50

At Mohawk, every student has to take a course called Active Citizenship, which is mainly about making a difference within your community. I tried for an exemption and was denied, but the course does sound more interesting than I first thought and our teacher seems fantastic. One of those few who is passionate about her work, and puts a lot of ( Read more... )

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ladynine June 3 2010, 17:52:15 UTC

LOL! *snort* Indeed.

mlc13 June 3 2010, 23:29:37 UTC

A guy in my class actually lived near Chernobyl when the disaster occurred, and he raised his hand to dispute the speaker's opinion. It was pretty interesting!!

Do we even have... jadedeath June 3 2010, 22:13:36 UTC

enough geographical land mass in order to provide enough space for enough wind turbines to cover the energy requirements of the nuclear power plants that we have now...?

Logan

Re: Do we even have... mlc13 June 3 2010, 23:27:58 UTC

I do agree that windmills are a great environmental resource, however they certainly can't replace nuclear power.

Add to that your point of usable space. There are 5 windmills up the road from the Bruce nuclear plant which generate enough power for 3000 houses. Each blade is 39m in length, so the full circumferance would be roughly 78m, plus required space between, etc... It's just not feasible as a replacement.

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mlc13 June 7 2010, 00:42:29 UTC

Exactly!! I'm always amazed at how people can still use Chernobyl as a "safety" argument. Even more so after taking a Nuclear Energy Worker safety course!

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mlc13 June 7 2010, 01:34:24 UTC

No, I haven't had a chance. We discussed thorium slightly, but our safety course was focused on working as a radiographic inspector - therefore using gamma rays for x-ray inspections (usually with iridium / cobalt as the radioactive source).

A friend recently mentioned iter - some sort of fusion based energy source, which sounds interesting (but I haven't had much chance to look into that either). (http://www.iter.org)

I grew up in Kincardine (which I'm sure you already know...), where 90% of families are employed at the Bruce Nuclear Plant, so I've always had an interest in the safety argument, after learning a bit more about this through school, it's becoming even more interesting to me.