Links I found interesting for 08-07-2015

[nwhyte]

• Siderea Reads Watership Down: El-ahrairah to His Warren (Part 1)
  First of two excellent pieces.
  (tags: sf )
• Siderea Reads Watership Down: The First Sixty-Five Pages (Part 2)
  Second excellent piece in what I hope will be a good series.
  (tags: sf )
• U.N. digital privacy investigator: Estonian is passed over
  Maltese candidate wins.
  (tags: privacy

Comments

Nuclear power

[anonymous]

How can that article not mention the "not good" fact of nuclear waste? Somehow it seems relatively easy to estimate the economic value, but how does it contrast to the problem of treating or storing the waste for who knows how long?

Re: Nuclear power

[yea_mon]

And yet the mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and other nasty stuff which we produce which have no half-lives get a free pass because they're not (normally) radioactive...

Re: Nuclear power

[nwhyte]

Not to mention the vast amount of pollution caused by fossil fuels...

Nuclear Power

[yea_mon]

A nice article on the benefits of nuclear power.

Despite the urgent need for low-carbon power, too many 'environmentalists' remain dogmatically opposed to it. Too often I see claims made about nuclear power not being able to provide enough power to the world, but when other low-carbon power sources have their issues pointed out - then it's "every little counts".