As reported in Greg Aharonian’s PatNews: Fergus Gibb’s ‘granite coffin’ may finally reconcile us to the beauty of nuclear power from the Daily Telegraph (subscription required–entire article posted below), “reports on a new solution to handling nuclear waste proposed by Dr. Fergus Gibbs, a geology professor at Sheffield University. His solution is to drill very deep holes into the granite of the continental crust, about 5000 meters deep. At such depths, the Earth is already quite hot, about 900 centigrade. Containers of nuclear waste would be buried at the bottom of the holes. All of the heat sources together melt … Continue reading Nuke Me