RE: France's latest green idea: underwater nuclear reactors
GREEN IDEA!!!??? Next we'll be calling smog fresh air and acid rain, nature's paint remover. In what insane world does it make more sense to screw up the ocean, which regulates the entire world's weather. Witness the vast issues world-wide caused by el nino and la nina episodes. Droughts and floods in Southeast Asia and Auustralia, massive Typhoons in the Pacific, Katrina, this years winter of record snowfall in the Northeast US. In addition, look at how ocean currents concentrate all the trash that is washed into it from all the surrounding shores into central locations in Pacific and Atlantic ocean which has patches of plastic bottles and other trash hundreds of square miles in extent. Finally a thing which no one seems to recall any more is the heat pollution caused by these reactors. The Calvert Cliffs reactor in Maryland had already altered the ecology (and the weather) of that area of the Chesapeake Bay watershed from the heat being discharged from its cooling water. (I am not referring to the radioactive coolant that contacts the fuel directly but the water that is used to cool off that coolant and to condense the steam used to run the turbines.) At a time of global warming when the ice caps are melting and methane (an even worse greenhouse gas than C02), on the ocean floor is being released into the athmosphere because of the increase in ocean temperatures, does it make sense to pump even more heat into the ocean?!!
In an era of truly stupid ideas, this has got to be one of the stupidest. As Larry Niven is always having his characters say, "You didn't think it through."
