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Re: ZERO Nuclear impact (was: Is car pooling for real? etc)

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From: Robert Firth
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 16:39
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In article <1992Jul24.155039.8867@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:

>     Neither method is likely cost-effective in Virginia for the 
>     production of large amounts of power.  And the leaf-blowers necessary
>     for the solar collectors would raise a terrible racket ...

And, when you consider how much cheaper and more efficient a leaf is
than any man-made solar collector, the idea of replacing the one by
the other is a delicious irony.  Crazy Eddie engineering at its finest.
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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
Subject: Re: ZERO Nuclear impact (was: Is car pooling for real? etc)
Message-ID: <1992Aug5.163953.4087@sei.cmu.edu>
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