Comments on: Controversial Duo: Nuclear Pod & Canadian Tar Sands!

By: 6 Nuclear Power Startups To Watch via Earth2Tech « Mash'd!

6 Nuclear Power Startups To Watch via Earth2Tech « Mash'd! — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:51:23 +0000

[...] for about $25 million apiece, and is meant to be buried next to remote communities, military bases, tar sand extraction operations and other power-hungry, hard-to-reach [...]

By: 6 Nuclear Power Startups To Watch

6 Nuclear Power Startups To Watch — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:02:13 +0000

[...] for about $25 million apiece, and is meant to be buried next to remote communities, military bases, tar sand extraction operations and other power-hungry, hard-to-reach [...]

By: Hyperion Has a $100M Valuation for Mini Nuclear Power

Hyperion Has a $100M Valuation for Mini Nuclear Power — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:44:02 +0000

[...] the valuation is really high for a risky, unproven technology that is a good five years from putting the first device in the ground. While the technology itself was developed at [...]

By: CNCMike

CNCMike — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:10:55 +0000

Forgot to mention that the toxic ponds are located in the flight path of one of the largest waterfowl migration routes and millions have already been killed by the ponds.

By: CNCMike

CNCMike — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:08:11 +0000

While I see a potential future for this type of reactor, enrgy is the least of our worries when it comes to tar sands. They do currently use 5 barrles worth of natural gas energy for steam to produce 4 barrles of a gooey tar like kerogen. It also takes 2 to 5 barrels of additonal water and they carve up over 4 tons of earth to get 2 tons of sand that yield 1 barrel of kerogen. The rest of the sand and oily residues are flushed with more water into holding ponds that will be highly toxic for thousands of years.

Kerogen is also loaded with sulfur. In their attempts to remove the sulfur they have created over 5 ton piles of sulfur that leach acid into the ground and waterways. These piles grow by 1700 tons a day. Winds create huge clouds of sulfur that blow around unitl they contact water and become liquid acid. Syncrude Canada Ltd. says they cannot afford to move the piles 930 miles to where it might be sold. In Kazakhstan the piles are over 8 tons and growing just as fast if not faster.

Sadly most Americans don't know that the oil we import from tar sands exceeds what we import from Saudi Arabia.