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Originally Posted by Seth8530 (Post 2043487)

and yet somehow some people still find it in their hearts to argue against safe sources of energy such as nuclear...

How does that even relate to the topic? Fertilizer plants don't produce energy - they consume it.

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Originally Posted by AndyJWest (Post 2043497)

How does that even relate to the topic? Fertilizer plants don't produce energy - they consume it.

He could have been referring to Buncefield which was an oil refinery.

Sorry, I was referring to the fertilizer plant. What I meant was that it is strange that we are ok with things that are inherently dangerous such as driving, oil refineries, fertilizer plants ect.. But things with much safer track records such as nuclear sometimes get shunned.. Kind of unrelated...

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Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 2043490)

I think the only two truly safe sources of energy at the moment are solar and perhaps windpower, although if you're standing underneath a wind turbine when a blade comes off then it's going to hurt...
Unfortunately neither of those outputs enough power to feed our hungry empires. :dead:

Though it does not happen often wind turbines have been known to (I assume) to over speed and tear themselves apart not really that risky unless you are right under it.In my experience I have only seen turbines in Germany and there they where surrounded by a perimeter fence which would keep you safe from a turbine disintegration.At least the one in the middle of a forest that I rode my bike to had the perimeter fence keeping you about 300 feet away from the structure.