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- From: Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Nukes as Stop-Gap
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 22:33:51 GMT
- Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
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- Message-ID: <Jym.22Dec1992.1432@naughty-peahen>
- References: <1992Dec16.055121.1779@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In-reply-to: ds@scammell.ecos.tne.oz.au's message of Sun, 20 Dec 1992 21:15:10 GMT
-
- >> 5. That renewable energy technology can replace nuclear power plants...
- > Not in all cases. Most environmentalists will agree with this.
- > Nuclear is a stop gap until better technologies come around.
-
- =\= As Amory Lovins pointed out in his essay from the early
- 1970s, _Soft_Energy_Paths_, nuclear energy is too expensive to
- serve in such a role. Lovins resigned himself to a fossil fuel
- "bridge" to a renewable energy future.
-
- =\= The capital required to replace America's fossil fuel energy
- plants with nuclear power plants would exceed America's GNP.
- Nuclear power can only -- and has only -- served to supplement,
- not to supplant.
- <_Jym_>
-