Haakon
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That is an excellent summary.
Plastic bags, climate change, renewable energy,
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rockmoose
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How do you like them batteries?
What a great idea. I imagine the hydrogen and nuclear lobbyists are leaning hard on their pollie mates to put the kibosh on this.
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What a great idea. I imagine the hydrogen and nuclear lobbyists are leaning hard on their pollie mates to put the kibosh on this.
How Australia's many old mine shafts could be used to make renewable energy
About 100,000 legacy mine shafts around the country could be repurposed to generate renewable energy thanks to technology using gravity that has been around since the 1600s.
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pink poodle
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Wait...gravity has only been around since the 1600s?
ozzybmx
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rockmoose
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Apples didn't exist before then. More proof the bible is a lie.
pink poodle
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Was this guy a stable genius?
It was George Santos you you person you. Just before the battle of Waterloo.
rockmoose
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Agent Smith was right.
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1.3m tonnes of nuclear wastewater could end up in the Pacific. Japanese experts insist it's good enough to drink
Operators of the Fukushima nuclear power plant are set to release treated wastewater into the ocean in coming months. But already Japanese authorities are facing a barrage of criticism from fishermen in the Fukushima prefecture, South Korea, China, and across the Pacific Islands over the proposal.
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The 'sustainability paradox': Should this diverse sea floor environment be mined to make batteries?
Scientists calculate there are thousands of unidentified species living on the ocean floor between Hawaii and Mexico where deep-sea mining for critical minerals needed to build batteries is set to begin next year.
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What would happen if they used some sort of evaporation to dispose of the waste water? Would there be some sort of crystallised nuclear waste like the salt from sea water?
Mattyp
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It would be a bit like if we all drank some bleach during covid....
pink poodle
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You didn't drink any bleach? I was on that shit.
Oddjob
Merry fucking Xmas to you assholes
Yes. A friend's husband works in water treatment and was working on treating the waste water from Olympic Dam with RO filters and evaporation ponds.
Tritium has a half life of 12 years, but shock horror the Pacific is very very big. See
Before any of the greenies jump down my throat, that guy is a lecturer from MIT teaching post grads. He is subject to much higher ethical and research standards than any of us.
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Freediver
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It would work but you have 2 problems, the first 1 being the energy required and the second one being at the moment the waste is very diluted and not all that nasty, if you concentrate it you end up with another set of problems.
I should add that's 1300000000 litres of water you need to evaporate
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Oddjob
Merry fucking Xmas to you assholes
I just realised the reason why there is tritium in that waste water. Tritium is a hydrogen atom with two neutrons. So that waste water contains heavy water. Separating that out in bulk is a pain in the ass.
If we had working fusion reactors or were planning to make lots of hydrogen bombs it would be worth reprocessing. But as it is it will just sink straight to the bottom of the ocean and decay relatively harmlessly into Helium.
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Jabubu
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I just did a quick me and it turns out Helium-3 is a very valuable resource or at least has the potential to be.
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Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Wants To “Darken The Skies” With Airships
Elegant transportation of the future or full of hot air?