You are, in fact, living on all the oil that was burned to build the station and extract and refine the fuel. No profit. Just looked at your web page. Didn't know Japan had any atom power plants, but there is no coal or oil nearby either. How on earth does the economy hold up? Chris. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of James B. > Davis > Sent: 29 June 2004 00:36 > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > Subject: Re: PF Exhibits on June 26, 04 > > > On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:56:57 +0100, you wrote: > > >Did you know that the energy required to extract the uranium and > refine it > >for use as a fuel and the energy to build the power station comes to more > >than the total energy output of the power unit over its entire > life... and > >then there is the decommissioning. All seems to be a red herring. > > Ya, so it's a good thing that it takes very little energy to just dump > the spent fuel in a great big hole somewhere. > > The facts are though that nuclear generating plants are mostly what > keeps us going. If we had to depend on burning fossil fuels, it would > all be gone now and we'd all be riding bicycles. Hey, we should all be > riding bicycles anyway. > > > -- > Jim Davis, President, > Eastern Beaver Company, > http://ebeaver.oberro.com/ > Motorcycle Relay Kits > > >
