[TheForge] now Japanese nuke plants OT: POL:

[Andrew Vida]

James Binnion wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2011, at 11:47 AM, peter fels wrote:
> 
>> That's changing, both in the cost and efficiency of solar cells
>> etc,
> Alternative energy sources aren't even close by orders of magnitude
> yet, yes they are getting better but they still cannot compete in
> scale or cost with petro or nuke.

A truth the nuts and twigs crowd flatly refuse to acknowledge.  If they 
want to return to the stone age, I support them fully so long as they 
leave the rest of us to live as we see fit.  Unfortunately, the 
watermelon marxists seem ill-contented to  leave us alone.
> 
>> Also there is a vast amount of natural gas and methane hydrate if
>> we can somehow sequester the CO2.
> 
> This is probably easier than making solar or wind cary the load, but
> still a huge engineering task.

	And it is not "green", so what's the point - at least until the oil 
spigots run dead-dry?
> 
> James Binnion jbin at well.com
> 
> 
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