Re: Nuclear power far from clean

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From: Terry Spragg
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 00:00

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In article <61cgjv$fh0@crl.crl.com>,
   vanyel@crl.crl.com (Paul W. Cashman) wrote:
|kym@faraday.ee.latrobe.edu.au (Kym Horsell) writes:
|
|>Do the "maths" yourself -- something smells when you use naive arguments
|>of the form "X is impossible (because of my long list of unstated
|>and presumably -- in the light of (a) the ``conclusion'' 
|>and the ``facts'' that (b) I'm trying to draw one in the first
|>place, and (c) trying to convince others that I have done so 
|>and that both it and the technique are valid -- incorrect assumptions)".
|
|Moreover, the amount of land area required to mount solar cells to
|equal a typical coal or nuclear (or pumped-storage or....) power plant
|isn't measured in acres, but in SQUARE MILES!     --Dozens of square
|miles, in fact.   Funny; I don't see environmentalists screaming about
|the resulting damage to regional arcologies from such a vast project.
|Wonder why, forsooth?
|
How many square miles does it take to quarantine an area polluted by 
chernobl?

So we cover 200 square miles of the mojave desert to provide power ot all 
of the US?  So what?
1000 lizards infest the shady area?  Dew drops all over the desert allowing 
greenery is the most probable difficulty.

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From: *nospam*tspragg@nbnet.nb.ca (Terry Spragg)
Subject: Re: Nuclear power far from clean
Date: 1997/10/09
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