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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by donclark</i> <br /><br /> <br /> <br /><b>That's the kind of change we need here in America. Drop those speed limits down to 20 mph as in Bermuda, and change our vehicle of choice to a scooter.....</b> <br /> <br /> <br />As far as nulear waste is concerned, 99 percent of the contaminated waste is gone in 10 years, and another 99 percent of that is gone in 100 years. In fact, the uranium that is mined is more toxic than what's left after 100 years..... <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />[/quote]Are you joking? Never work, people a lot of people would rather start a revolution, than give up their cars. Just how do you haul anything a scooter? And this is America we drive Harleys, not scooters. Ever hear the song "I can't drive 55"? You could pull over everyone in the USA, if you had a 20mph speed limit. Besides, if you did that people would fly much much more than they would drive long distances, since getting anywhere would take forever, and airplanes are less fuel-efficient than a car. It's our right to buy whatever cars we want, guzzle as much gas as we want, and drive as fast as the speed limits permit. I would suggest that if you really think that is such a great idea, you sell any other vehicles, but one car, and buy a scooter. Then when you want to go on a vacation, you can take your car and drive it at 20mph. <br /><hr noshade size="1">I am all for the use of nuclear reactors, however the problem of nuclear waste is not to be taken too lightly if no breeder reactor is used, plutonium; a by-product of a U-238 nuclear reactor has a half-life of 24,000 years. Here is what I said about nuclear power on the Model Railroader forum: <br /> <br /><i><i>Nuclear power is a very good option for using less fuel, but the environmentalist also blocks that path. I was scoffed at before when I said that disposing of nuclear waste was not a huge problem. Here is what I heard from a retired officer of the Navy, who severed on diesel and nuclear subs, and worked directly under Admiral Rickover. What you do is you take the waste, the size of a marble that can run whole cities for years, and even then can be put into another reactor that uses the waste from the first reactor, coat it with glass and dump it into the Marianas trench. No radioactivity will contaminate the ocean and nothing lives that deep, and it couldn't be filled up for thousands of years. Of course you can't convince people of that, but it would work.</i></i> <br />
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