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- From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
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- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 04:12:47 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.193353.6234@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >While it should be obvious that we should take all the "cheap"
- >efficiency steps we can, economic growth, and the coupling it
- >has with energy consumption, can't be ignored. Energy usage and
- >the GDP track quite well. We can argue which causes which, I think
- >some of both, but we can't argue that they don't go hand in hand. A
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- Yes we can. The energy to run an early industrial revolution era
- machine shop was enormous because a single power source had to drive
- a mechanical gearing system that distributed motion to each machine and
- lost a great deal of power in the process. Dropping energy requirments
- by putting individual electric motors in each machine increased
- productivity. Energy use <-> GDP seems like an anachronism.
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