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Eko

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3. Ok,

Reply to hunter (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 2, 2019, 06:09 PM

Sep 2019

The biggest cost of nuclear is the natural gas that will be burned in order to keep the nuclear fantasies alive until the cost of nuclear can be reduced to make it feasible.

"If fossil fuels were banned tomorrow I think many people would embrace nuclear power before they gave up their affluent high energy industrial lifestyles."
This is not a zero sum game, to correct your sentence "If fossil fuels were banned tomorrow I think many people would embrace nuclear, solar and wind power before they gave up their affluent high energy industrial lifestyles."
Thanks,
Eko.

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What? "while the tens of thousands of people killed by seawater didn't matter to the general public" Eko Sep 2019 #1

People see wind turbines as progress the same way people used to see smokestacks as progress. hunter Sep 2019 #2

Ok, Eko Sep 2019 #3

"If fossil fuels were banned tomorrow I think many people would embrace nuclear, solar and wind powe John ONeill Sep 2019 #4

Speaking only for myself, I don't see nuclear energy as a tool merely to maintain affluence. NNadir Sep 2019 #5