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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.183314.26932@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <1992Dec30.161607.25113@vexcel.com> <1992Dec30.174327.10706@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <1992Dec30.182038.26674@vexcel.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:33:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.182038.26674@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
- >>
- >>I fail to see why efficiency improvements and shifts to non-fossil energy
- >>sources are mutually exclusive. Your slant seems to imply that it is
- >>necessary to choose one of these approaches, but the use of the words
- >>"quite independent" shows that this is not the case.
- >>
- >>mt
- >>
- I just wanted to reiterate that if funds are limited, then priorities
- need to be made and decisions made about where those funds go. If the
- goal is CO2 remediation, then the best strategy, according to this
- study, is to spend this money (or much of it) on efficiency. If we
- have more money, we can also move away from fossil fuels. Its a
- question of budgets and priorities.
-
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