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JCB develops hydrogen combustion engine and outlines plans for the future of propulsion
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<blockquote data-quote="ollie989898" data-source="post: 7734188" data-attributes="member: 54866"><p>Tidal power has huge potential but it would be easier to get 10 Hinkley C's built than it would to get anyone to agree to letting you build a tidal barrage to install the turbines. The UK has some excellent tidal estuaries which would generate power for the next 100 years with utter reliability but the political will to do it does not exist and any such project would be swamped by environ-mentalists instantly.</p><p></p><p>I am not convinced hydrogen is the long term solution to powering machinery or heavy vehicles. Obtaining it is a serious problem and storing it is nearly as bad. Liquid fuels of someone kind are the obvious answer and their carbon neutrality will depend on how they are produced in the first place.</p><p></p><p>Regarding radioactive wastes, almost every country in the world uses radioisotopes for a variety of reasons so will require a dedicated store for these materials even if they never had a nuclear power or weapons program. I think future generations would understand that we have carefully stored some radioactive materials in an isolated mountain somewhere rather than totally fudge the atmosphere and oceans by continuing along the fossil fuel route, after all, the volume of radioactive wastes to be stored is very small compared to the volumes of waste products generated by other human activities.</p><p></p><p>Newer reactor designs burn or otherwise transmute all actinide wastes to the point that virtually all their waste materials will be safe within a few centuries. That kind of commitment is well within the grasp of current human technologies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ollie989898, post: 7734188, member: 54866"] Tidal power has huge potential but it would be easier to get 10 Hinkley C's built than it would to get anyone to agree to letting you build a tidal barrage to install the turbines. The UK has some excellent tidal estuaries which would generate power for the next 100 years with utter reliability but the political will to do it does not exist and any such project would be swamped by environ-mentalists instantly. I am not convinced hydrogen is the long term solution to powering machinery or heavy vehicles. Obtaining it is a serious problem and storing it is nearly as bad. Liquid fuels of someone kind are the obvious answer and their carbon neutrality will depend on how they are produced in the first place. Regarding radioactive wastes, almost every country in the world uses radioisotopes for a variety of reasons so will require a dedicated store for these materials even if they never had a nuclear power or weapons program. I think future generations would understand that we have carefully stored some radioactive materials in an isolated mountain somewhere rather than totally fudge the atmosphere and oceans by continuing along the fossil fuel route, after all, the volume of radioactive wastes to be stored is very small compared to the volumes of waste products generated by other human activities. Newer reactor designs burn or otherwise transmute all actinide wastes to the point that virtually all their waste materials will be safe within a few centuries. That kind of commitment is well within the grasp of current human technologies. [/QUOTE]
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