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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: Nukes as Stop-Gap
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.181048.23342@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <JMC.92Dec22174007@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <1992Dec23.164300.22246@vexcel.com> <JMC.92Dec23094517@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:10:48 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Dec23094517@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.164300.22246@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
- > References: <Jym.22Dec1992.1432@naughty-peahen> <STEINLY.92Dec22145701@topaz.ucsc.edu> <JMC.92Dec22174007@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- >
- >If the Greenhouse warming turns out to be both real and bad, we may
- >have to replace the coal plants in a short period. It can be done,
- >although it would be expensive. If we have to crank out a lot of
- >nuclear plants in a hurry, they will get much cheaper, because of
- >experience and by amortizing the engineering over more plants.
- >At a conference held in 1979 on possible energy emergencies, a
- >Westinghouse official told us, in answer to a question, that
- >plants could be built in two years - and this without priorities
- >like those used in World War II.
-
- A study (which I have referenced in the past) also showed that the
- most effective and efficient plan for CO2 mitigation was with
- efficiency conversion. The study used cost figures for nuclear
- power provided by advocates and were at least as economical as
- the French experience with nuclear power.
-
-
- >--
- >John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
- >*
- >He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
- >
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