That Giant Sucking Sound May Be Your New TV

[MOVIEGEEK]

I try to save electricity when I can,mostly because it costs so much.
I have my LCD HDTV set to medium backlight and it cuts down on heat and extends the life of the bulb which coincedently is flourescent.
I think LED lights are the future because they are cheap to make,last longer than flourescent and they use less electricity.The problem with LED lights is they still can't make a single one big enough or bright enough,they have to clump several together.
As for Al Gore I think he is a hypocrite,why does he get a Nobel Prize for narrating a film?
I'm surprised they didn't give him one for inventing the internet.

[Conquest10]

why does he get a Nobel Prize for narrating a film?

He didn't. Shows how much you know.

[dun4cheap]

I bought 2 of these and 4 white ones

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Microsoft-Zune-30GB-Digital-Media-Player-Black-88222427...oductDetail.do

The deal is they are closing out the brown ones for $99. Sears pricematched it and let me buy the black and white ones instead. Anyhow, circuitcity.com is not even showing them instock anymore, but I was in my local circuit city 2 days ago and they had 3 brand new ones still for $99 each. You just have to go in to the store. Lastly, supposedly the zunes will be able to play games in the near future with a firmware upgrade. (So I have read.)


Another alternative is to buy a 7" Phillips mini dvd player/tv for $80. It would probably be a little easier, but 10 year olds nowwadays are pretty smart.

[dnix71]

After being denied permission to build a 3 MW coal burner on the edge of Lake Okeechobee, FPL has filed papers saying they intend to expand nuclear production for Florida by that amount instead.

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/08/fpl-proposes-ad.html

Expansion at two existing plants and build two new ones will raise the percent of nuke electricty from 20% to 30% by 2020.

The coal burner was a bad idea. Lake O is the backup water supply for 5 million people. The mud in the lake already has so much arsenic and pesticides that it can't even be given away for commercial fill.

Nukes also have closed cooling systems, and water is already way short here. Lake O is 4.5 feet lower than regulation. Water managers voted a couple of days ago to limit outdoor water use (home and commercial irrigation) to one day a week beginning Jan. 15.

[NiteLite]

The cost to build, operate and maintain a nuclear plant would not allow for cheap electricity. Everyone fell for that line in the 1950's. They still haven't solved the waste problem either. I wonder where all those anti-nuke people are from the 70s these days, I'd have thought they'd be soiling their pants with the talk of building more nuke plants.

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We be around

[DRP]

Electricity is clean.
Who cares how much we consume? It is not oil in the sands that once is gone is gone forever, for God's sake.

Right. And just where do you think the Uranium 238 used to feed these nuclear power stations comes from huh? Your ignorance is staggering.

[DereX888]

Electricity is clean.
Who cares how much we consume? It is not oil in the sands that once is gone is gone forever, for God's sake.

Right. And just where do you think the Uranium 238 used to feed these nuclear power stations comes from huh? Your ignorance is staggering.

Do you have any clue how much of this uranium is there left?
Yes, it is not coal in the ground, but there are already more known sources on earth than we probably will ever need

And just to cut another common myth of the nuclear waste that people are so afraid of - compare it to millions of tons of waste from "traditional" power plants
One abandoned mining shaft would be enough to dump the nuke wastes there for generations.
You can ask NASA to shoot it into the sun if you want to get rid of it completely, too.
And there are hundreds of other solutions, I only quoted my 2 favorite ones.

The problem with democracy is that every idiot can state their opinion - thats another favorite quote of mine
(and Im not suggesting youre an idiot, but certainly you haven't even read anything about the subject you already form and publish opinion on...)

It is tempting to continue this OT here, but since it is wrong forum and wrong subject I promise not to answer any follow-ups

[Kayembee]

DereX888 wrote:
>And just to cut another common myth of the nuclear waste that people are
>so afraid of - compare it to millions of tons of waste from
>"traditional" power plants. One abandoned mining shaft would be
>enough to dump the nuke wastes there for generations. You can ask NASA
>to shoot it into the sun if you want to get rid of it completely, too.

Actually, dropping it into the Sun is impractical. Orbital
velocity of the Earth around the Sun is ~20 miles/sec. That means you'd
need to accelerate any cargo to be dropped into the Sun, to 20 miles/sec
in the opposite direction. To date neither NASA nor anyone else has
tried for such a velocity; it would be WAY expensive.

>And there are hundreds of other solutions, I only quoted my 2 favorite
>ones.

The best solution (short of practical fusion power) is probably
breeder reactors - turn that trash into treasure, nuclear waste into
nuclear fuel.

>The problem with democracy is that every idiot can state their opinion -
>thats another favorite quote of mine

My favorite version is from Harlan Ellison: everyone is entitled
to an INFORMED opinion.

[redwudz]

OK, this thread has run it's course. Locked.

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