Comparison Of Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Power 1:00 PM

There are lots of resources in generating energy to power up our daily live. The increase in the demand of energy has put a lots of challenges to fulfill the required needs in the century. Lots of consideration and comparison has been done to gain knowledge in generating energy. The table below are premised on the assumption facilities run with reasonable attention to environmental protection so far as routine operation and concern of waste management.

Table of comparison between Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Energy

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** Question has been raise about the effect of krypton- 85from extensive reprocessing necessary for a breeder reactor system  on  cloud formation and hence potential climate change. However krypton- 85 can be removed from exhaust gases by cyrogenic cooling.

Further explanation and source at Institute For Energy and Environmental Research

Malaysia's Options for Power (Part 1) 8:11 PM

Natural Gas

Issues

• Demand exceeds supply
• Depleting local gas supply
• Power sector gas supply uncertain beyond 2019
• Gas price not reflecting cost of supply - lack of incentive for new supply investment

Possible Solutions

• Further gas resource development from marginal fields and import of gas from Indonesia, JDA etc.
• Reconsidering of benefits & costs of future piped gas export to Singapore
• More sustainable basis for allocating gas for power & non-power sectors
• Leverage on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminals being built by Thailand and Singapore
• Development of LNG regas terminal in Peninsular Malaysia
• Remove subsidy gradually

When there's fuel, there's natural gas. Petronas has warned us about petroleum reserves which will dry out by 2020. The production will decline 10% each year. What will happen by then? Yeps, we have our own oil but since the grade is high, the oil is being sold to other countries. Of course this comes together with certain contracts (with Japan for example is 20 years).

Someone may mention about using palm oil as alternative. Same thing. Selling the oil is more profitable than using it for power generation. As always.. money comes first. Not everyone is willing to sacrifice for the benefit of all. Not yet.