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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: Nukes as Stop-Gap
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.164300.22246@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <Jym.22Dec1992.1432@naughty-peahen> <STEINLY.92Dec22145701@topaz.ucsc.edu> <JMC.92Dec22174007@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:43:00 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Dec22174007@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >Also the French already built enough nuclear plants to supply 75 percent
- >of their electricity and a substantial amount left over to export. Their
- >per capita GNP is less than that of the U.S.
- >--
- >John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
- >*
- >He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
- >
-
- To build power generation capacity (of any type) to follow growth needs
- is very different from replacing existing capacity that has not
- finished its usefule life. Those nuclear advocates who want to
- replace existing coal plants with nuclear power for whatever
- reason are dreaming. I don't know that this was John McCarthy's
- point but I think it was the point of the original poster who
- spoke of supplementing rather than supplanting.
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