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Nuclear = Green?

Post 101

Arnie Appleaide - Inspector General of the Defenders of Freedom

Excellent! Well, looks like it's decided - nuclear is green!


Nuclear = Green?

Post 102

BouncyBitInTheMiddle

Resolution? On my internet? smiley - yikes


Nuclear = Green?

Post 103

Dogster

This might be interesting:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/20/mackay_on_carbon_free_uk/
http://www.withouthotair.com/

David MacKay (theoretical physicist and machine learning academic) has written a book on how much we'd need to build for various different ways of generating low or zero carbon electricity. He's an amateur in the field, but he's certainly smart and he's not making claims to evaluate the scientific evidence about global warming (which would certainly be outside his expertise), just using agreed upon numbers for how much electricity is produced by different means. He doesn't make an explicit conclusion, he suggests a variety of different plans, but the obvious conclusion you'd draw from reading it is that wind power is nowhere near enough (although it can certainly contribute), and that nuclear power is the only viable solution.


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