I believe there is also a project to use the tides of the sea to generate electricity. Apparently you can generate energy by mixing salt and sweet water somehow and they are implementing this technology in New York. I'll leave it to someone else to dig up the wiki article on this, as I'm not in the mood to look for it right now.

I'd rub my nude butt on the carpet until I generated enough electro matter
to power the planet!.. Though I'd have wicked bad rug burn.

I'm afraid the emissions from your butt might harm the planet even more than fossil fuels.

LMFAO!
 

You've got me there, Tushay.

You fail at french.

'Fail' is an understatement.

He can't fail at French, he doesn't even qualify for the test.

Third generation!

In Italy we've got many dams and so many hydroelectric power plants (and many windpower plants) but we haven't got a self-sufficiency, so we must buy electric energy from Freance for example, wich's got some nuclear power plants. I must say we need new plants, but I am afraid of them... I am afraid of radioactive waste!

I really think tidal power could be the way forwards. This video I found useful.

Damn, that's some creative shit. I would have never thought of something like that XD.

You know, radiation isn't manufactured by nuclear power plants. Radioactive material is mined out of the ground, which is also a good place to put it back when we're done. Radiation is much more scary for the general public than coal dust, sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide because it seems so alien to us, people don't understand it, this strange invisible power that harms us in mysterious ways. But we are all oddly silent about the thousands of deaths and respiratory illnesses caused by, as I said, coal dust, and all the other wastes and pollutants of traditional power generation. Nuclear plants only go up like one near Chernobyl when a great many things go wrong at once, including the fail-safes for each of those, each event of which is itself highly unlikely of occurring. And when they do, they don't alter the environment the way other means of power generation do when they are routinely operating. The town of Pripyat, within the Zone of Alienation and constructed to house the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant's workers, has become an incredible wildlife hot zone since its evacuation, in which even rare and endangered species are common. The mere presence of humanity, it seems, is much less environmentally damaging than dangerous levels of radiation.

I think you meant to say 'more'.

Yes. I actually read the whole thing!

Oh friggidy frig frig frig. Yes, thankee Matt.

RADIATION IS LIKE INVISIBLE FIRE THAT GIVES YOU CANCER

NO NUCLEAR

EVIL

I still want to go to that town near Chernobyl sometime. You can take a tour there and see the abandoned town and stuff. Heavy shit.

electricity is one of the gates to evolution without pollution......if used correctly

This is trino's Nuclear Power Plant area, one of the four italian plants.
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2139/p8030017.th.jpg

What makes me get angry is that the plant is encircled by fields and vegetation!

As opposed to building in the middle of a 10 square mile residential block?

There are a lot of small towns that encircle that plant, they are scattered in that land. So, it's the same thing.

What would you rather it be surrounded by? Groundless space? Toxic wasteland? Virgin forest? Just what sort of environments are available anywhere that might be a suitable alternative? And why are you not up in arms against the far more damaging coal-burning plants that exist in all of the places you'd hate nuclear plant to be?

I mean that nuclear power plants should be in places with low population density.

That is low population density, for Europe. And any more remote, and the power loss in transmission would make the plant's existance pointless.

We have no hopes :(