Hi all,
my name is Alan and I've just joined the Tribe. I think it's great that this Tribe is here and I hope I can make some valuable contributions. :o) I've been engaged in a debate recently, here in Europe, regarding Nuclear Power Plants and whether or not they should be used. Needless to say, I am not one of those who promotes the use of such facilities. I do understand that the harnessing of the energy can be done safely but neutralizing the waste product is still mainly a figment these days and while aircraft are seen to be 'safe' also in our modern world still some of them fail and fall out of the sky so .... the differences between a lost aircraft (and possibly people on the ground) though and a Nuclear Power Plant going critical are vast however and this is worth bearing in mind in any argument. ;o)
Anyway, the main reason I joined this tribe is to promote another kind of energy production which we hope to see come to fruitition this month - the Perpetual Pyramid Power Plant - or P4 as it has come to be known. Here is a link to an article from Dec last year ... cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php .... as you can see (if you've read the article) the plant is due to be initiated this month sometime and if it proves to be a success, well, considering that once the plant starts outputting power it doesn't stop, that the plant requires absolutely NO deliveries and that the plant produces aboslutely NO pollution whatsoever - I would say it was THE answer to our various current predicaments regarding energy. A typical coal burning plant produces about 200KW of power per day so you would need about 40 P4 plants to replace the one coal burning plant. This may seem a bit of an undertaking but consider .... one P4 plant requires only 3 acres of land and 6 mths (approx) to construct; a number of P4 plants can be hooked up to an existing sub-station; and last but not least, it is also better to compartmentalize ones power grid so that if something should happen to one part of it power may be redistributed from another location easily. Given all of the advantages of the P4 plant I think it makes enormous sense to promote it as a viable alternative to todays static power needs. Anyone else think the same? At the very least, we cannot allow our politicians to go ahead with the Heavy Industrialist plan to replace the oil industry with a nuclear one should this alternative prove to be successful - at least, so say I.

Nice to meet you all. I look forward to hearing from some of you :o)

Alan (IRL)