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Article #48Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste
From: Jack Reed
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 00:00
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Hi Murray, Glad to see some reason in this exchange: > >I'm as worried about climate change as most "clean energy" >advocates -- I just have a different perspective. > My view is that nuclear power is the only alternative to global-warming fossile fuels. I analyzed the U.S. wind power potential back in 1974 and found that about a 400-mile North-South swath of wind turbines east of the Rocky Mtns from Texas to Canada COULD produce four times our annual national power needs, most of it produced in Spring months. It would take quite a bunch of batteries to spread it over the year. Or we could cover Arizona with a photo-voltaic blanket and only need night-time battery storage. All pretty impractical. > >I'm a little frustrated with the climate change debate: the business lobby >pretends either that it isn't happening or that it'll be good for us, and >the environmentalists pretend that the solutions are simple (Solar panels on >every rooftop! Wind! Biomass! 50% increase in home energy efficiency!) > Me too. There's some smart people modeling climate and global warming coming up with opposite answers, depending on modeling assumptions that have not been validated on either side. Result? Maybe 50:50; so I don't want my descendant's survival depending on the flip of a coin! The only proper response is to do all we can to reduce fossile fuel pollution while further researching the intricacies of climate response. > Straight Ahead, Jack W. Reed, Certified Consulting Meteorologist, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA http://www.nmia.com/~jwreed Murray Love wrote in message ... >Ant, I'm Australian, and I realized after posting that it was probably a > -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =-----
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