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and I think your attitude is dangerous. To mankind, and the world. Higher energy costs is not a good outcome for anyone, and especially not for the poor of the world, because they will not be able to afford it, or, most likely, be able to field the technical cadre to maintain a network of windmills, the smart grid they need, or the load balancing facilities to keep things going, ect. The monstrous centralization of a nuclear power station has upsides, as well as downsides - for India, and other stable-but-poor countries manning and maintaining these stations is easier than farming the entirety of the countryside for energy.

There is also the basic fact that if the choice the public is offered is one between costly energy and frying the planet, most likely the planet will fry.  Maybe not. Maybe the current generation is more righteous than mankind has been so far. But is that really something you want to bet the world on?

Re: Water. Two words: Nuclear desalinization.

by Thomas on Tue Feb 9th, 2010 at 05:16:44 PM EST
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You want to claim that wind energy is too high-tech for developing countries but nuclear isn't?... Huh.

You should know that India is a wind power pioneer, too, with almost 11 GW installed (nuclear: 4.12 GW). Suzlon even bought majority in a top German manufacturer (REpower).

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Feb 10th, 2010 at 05:20:38 AM EST
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You want to claim that wind energy is too high-tech for developing countries but nuclear isn't?... Huh.

what can you say?

they're teaching grandmothers in india to install solar, maybe they can moonlight at westinghouse!

the bit about how inefficient it would be to harvest energy from the countryside too...

obviously a grid for their nuke nirvana would be worth installing, but empowering them off the grid, not so much.

concern trolling, poor planet, it's dying of coal fumes, what it surely needs now is to be bathed in radioactive rays, while declaiming how solar energy will pave the world with cement.

it beggars belief...like most topdown -is there any other kind?- capitalism.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Feb 10th, 2010 at 09:30:22 PM EST
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