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PamW

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4. My prediction..
Sat Jan 5, 2013, 03:36 PM
Jan 2013

My prediction was that when the Japanese realized that their country could be either:

a) An agrarian society powered by the limited power that renewables can offer.

b) A highly industrial society that requires the massive amounts of power that their
nuclear-powered electrical infrastructure was designed to deliver; in other words,
what they were before the earthquake / tsunami.

the Japanese would choose the latter.

In the final analysis, the Japanese want to be the economic powerhouse that they once were, which requires an energy intensive infrastructure powered by nuclear power.

I didn't think they would opt for "just getting by" with the limited amount of energy that is available from renewables.

PamW

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