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benburch

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Fri Jun-16-06 12:56 AM
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17. Those hot wastes would generate electricity.

They would be actively used for all of those decades. A Stirling Cycle engine can run on as small a heat difference as a coffee cup and the surrounding air, and require almost no maintenance. Of course, once they are cool, you entomb them. Understand also that future generations have to manage all of the wastes we are producing NOW by burning fossil fuels, and that is considerably more in volume than the nuclear waste for an equivalent amount of power!

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