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Posted by Paul Heslop on 12/18/05 12:07
"Gene E. Bloch" wrote:
>
> 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:
> >>>>
> >>>> <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
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
> letters617blochg3251
> (replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
Heh I was never In physics! :O) A guy from up here was designing a
kind of deep water wave pylon thing, very hyped when he shoed the
design, never heard of it since.
--
Paul (We're too young to fall asleep)
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