On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 10:00:09PM -0700, James Newtons Massmind wrote:
> > They should be selling nuclear power ! ;-)
> 
> Hey! I resemble that remark...
> 
> ...But part of the reason why I'm trying to "sell" nuke power is just to get
> people started thinking about the /relative/ downsides of all the power
> sources. Especially fossil fuels. It isn't that nuke power has no downside,
> it is just that fossil fuel has many downsides that are being totally
> ignored.

I'm not sure ignored is the correct idea here. It's more like "Riding the
wave of infrastructure and cheapness." Nuclear never got to cost breakeven
because of regulation. Overbearing regulation has continued because of a
combination of fear and Three Mile Island, which fueled it.

Two reports I remember reading includes the fact that there hasn't been new
nuclear construction in the US in over 20 years and that France has over
80 percent of the electricity generation via nuclear.

The average person just wants cheap energy without having to build an
entirely new infrastructure to get it. Solar and nuclear will only become
options when oil is too expensive to maintain. I agree that collapse is
going to be ugly.

BAJ
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