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Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 12/17/05 22:56
On 12/15/2005, Paul Heslop managed to type:
> "Gene E. Bloch" wrote:
>>
>> On 12/14/2005, Paul Heslop managed to type:
>>> "Gene E. Bloch" wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 12/11/2005, Paul Heslop managed to type:
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>>>> <SNIP>
>>>>
>>>>> This country stopped being anything like people imagine (If it ever
>>>>> was that place) many moons ago. Private Eye has it that new laws are
>>>>> being brought in to stop people objecting to the placement of nuclear
>>>>> facilities, just as it is announced that we're likely to get a whole
>>>>> bunch of nice shiny new ones. We allow more and more oppression every
>>>>
>>>> Shiny? or glowing?
>>>
>>> :O) Probly glowing.The irish are going to kick up a stink so who
>>> knows, maybe the international community will fight this.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> week it seems. But then, hey, we don't have a fucking warmongering
>>>>> monkey as a leader, just his bum chum.
>>>>
>>>> Couldn't resist...
>>>>
>>>> Gino
>>>> Whose first job after the US Navy was with a nuclear power company.
>>>>
>>> So, what do you think of nuclear power?
>>
>> I took that job because I thought that nuclear power was an answer to
>> the inevitable disappearance of oil & other fossil fuels, and to the
>> pollution caused by burning them and by burning renewable carbon fuels
>> (wood, whatever).
>>
>> I still believe that, nearly half a century later.
>>
>> The main difference is that I now recognize (at least a little bit) the
>> significant logistical problems and even danger associated with nuclear
>> waste.
>>
>> I'm still waiting for energy from earth-bound nuclear fusion, i.e., not
>> just solar energy :-)
>>
>> And on and on - I'll stop now :-)
>>
>> Gino
>>
>> --
>> Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
>> letters617blochg3251
>> (replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
>
> :O) I just hate the way they're dismissing stuff like wave power,
> there seems to be a slight aroma of corruption about this again.
I didn't think about that in my reply, but it is OT from nuclear power
:-) Heck, I'm even having trouble relating this subthread to "Blank DVD
disks" ;-0
Also there is tide power, wind power, and on.
I often worry about the effect on the planet even from all those
seemingly benign sources - such as changes in the overall entropy.
Unfortunately, I never took thermodynamics, and besides, I've been away
from physics so long I no longer trust my judgment...So I can worry,
but I can't compute...
Gino
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Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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