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Terrorism, Nuclear power and Secrecy | 140 comments (140 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Terrorism, Nuclear power and Secrecy (4.00 / 2)

If we ban everything that, at a stretch, can be used to kill people, we will have to sacrifice many modern, and ancient, comforts.

Fertilizer. Cars. Knives (including your bread knife, but that won't matter as there won't be any bread anyway (no fertilizer)). And so on.

Ban this, ban that.

What is needed is proper cost benefit analysis. And with that both bread knives and nuclear reactors come off looking good.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Fri Jul 20th, 2007 at 08:18:37 AM EST
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Re: Terrorism, Nuclear power and Secrecy (none / 1)

won't be any bread anyway (no fertilizer)

Invalid assumption there. No obvious need for refined fertilizer.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Jul 20th, 2007 at 08:21:43 AM EST
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Re: Terrorism, Nuclear power and Secrecy (none / 0)

I didn't say refined fertilizer, did I? ;-)

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Fri Jul 20th, 2007 at 08:25:47 AM EST
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