Reactioneers
11-10-2004, 21:05
Budapest Pact
A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.
Category: Environmental
Industry Affected: All Businesses
Proposed by: Reactioneers
Description: Founding and funding of the UN Renewable Energy and Fusion Reactor Research Institute (REFR). All nations shall contribute to the further research and gradual switching to safe energy sources.
As the word's population doubles, the energy demand triples. This is due to industrialization and economic growth of developing nations. Continued use of fossil fuels will rapidly deplete these limited and localized natural resources while polluting our world.
Deuterium in the earth's oceans is sufficient to fuel advanced fusion reactors for millions of years. The waste product from a deuterium-tritium fusion reactor is ordinary harmless helium.
Solar and renewable energy technologies are safe and feature an unlimited fuel supply, tough they are geographically limited, climate dependent and unable to meet the energy demands of a populous and industrialized world at today's technological level.
Nuclear fission, suffers from a negative public perception. High-level radioactive waste disposal, and the proliferation threat of weapons-grade nuclear materials, are major concerns. The fuel supply in this case, uranium, is large, but ultimately limited to several hundred years.
The prospect of successful nuclear fusion technology, on the other hand, promises virtually unlimited energy, with very little danger. The radiation from a magnetic containment device is easily shielded, and (unlike uranium-fuelled fission power plants), if there is an accident and the magnetic containment is breached, the reaction immediately stops.
The institute's goal is to apply the researched energy sources at a worldwide percentage of 15% in 15 years, at 50% in 30 years, and at 100% in 40 years.
Status: Lacking Support (requires 128 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Thu Oct 14 2004
A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.
Category: Environmental
Industry Affected: All Businesses
Proposed by: Reactioneers
Description: Founding and funding of the UN Renewable Energy and Fusion Reactor Research Institute (REFR). All nations shall contribute to the further research and gradual switching to safe energy sources.
As the word's population doubles, the energy demand triples. This is due to industrialization and economic growth of developing nations. Continued use of fossil fuels will rapidly deplete these limited and localized natural resources while polluting our world.
Deuterium in the earth's oceans is sufficient to fuel advanced fusion reactors for millions of years. The waste product from a deuterium-tritium fusion reactor is ordinary harmless helium.
Solar and renewable energy technologies are safe and feature an unlimited fuel supply, tough they are geographically limited, climate dependent and unable to meet the energy demands of a populous and industrialized world at today's technological level.
Nuclear fission, suffers from a negative public perception. High-level radioactive waste disposal, and the proliferation threat of weapons-grade nuclear materials, are major concerns. The fuel supply in this case, uranium, is large, but ultimately limited to several hundred years.
The prospect of successful nuclear fusion technology, on the other hand, promises virtually unlimited energy, with very little danger. The radiation from a magnetic containment device is easily shielded, and (unlike uranium-fuelled fission power plants), if there is an accident and the magnetic containment is breached, the reaction immediately stops.
The institute's goal is to apply the researched energy sources at a worldwide percentage of 15% in 15 years, at 50% in 30 years, and at 100% in 40 years.
Status: Lacking Support (requires 128 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Thu Oct 14 2004