[lbo-talk] nuclear power

[Leigh Meyers]

"They weren't quite right. Lovelock has always been an enthusiast. It 
is, in
both senses, a generational thing. Fifty years ago, Britain was 
promised
that nuclear power would generate "electricity too cheap to meter". 
That
dream lodged in the minds of his generation: almost all the 
technology's
big fans are over 60."
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This is nice.. and general to the point of meaninglessness.

I watched the BBC interview and he wasn't talking about
"electricity too cheap to meter", he was talking about
"Time's Up" for global warming issues, and nukes
would be a stopgap measure until some other, cleaner
power source is available.

Of course it won't happen that way if we turn to nukes
as our backbone energy source. We'll use them til we
glow, just like we kept going with fossil fuels till
we almost "crispy crittered" ourselves with solar
radiation from the greenhouse effect.

Leigh Meyers
leighcmeyers at yahoo.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: R
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Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 6:29 PM
Subject: [lbo-talk] nuclear power

There is an alternative
Politicians are once more revving up the debate that only nuclear 
power can
save the planet

George Monbiot
Tuesday September 7, 2004

The Guardian

For 50 years, nuclear power has been a solution in search of a 
problem. Now
- oh, happy days! - two of them have arrived at once.
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