Chernobyl's Downplayed Victims | 49 comments (49 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Speaking of Downplayed Victims (none / 0)

Huh!?

What business do you work in again?

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 12:52:56 PM EST
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Re: Speaking of Downplayed Victims (none / 1)

Wind?

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 12:53:45 PM EST
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Re: Speaking of Downplayed Victims (none / 1)

Indeedy.

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by DoDo on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 01:06:03 PM EST
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Re: Speaking of Downplayed Victims (none / 1)

I don't understand your question.

I am pointing out the fact that coal-fired plants ARE being built left and right. Wind farms are also being built, but nowhere nearly enough of them to avoid the coal plants, sadly.

In the US, a number of gas-fired plants are switched to coal when it is feasible.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 01:25:29 PM EST
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I am pointing out the fact that coal-fired plants ARE being built left and right.

In response to a complaint that coal is painted 'the' alternative to nuclear by some. It's not the fact, it's the relevance.

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by DoDo on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 01:33:11 PM EST
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Re: Speaking of Downplayed Victims (none / 1)

Also, your replies could be read to make the following nonsensical argument: "Less wind is built than coal, less nuclear is built than wind, but we should build more nuclear because sadly not enough wind is built."

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by DoDo on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 01:37:58 PM EST
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Re: Speaking of Downplayed Victims (none / 1)

That's unfair and you know it.

As long as the debate is on "what to build" (supply-side issues rather than demande side issues) and that wind is not seen as a reliable (nor, by many, cheap) baseload source, then politicians and utilities will choose between coal and nuclear.

Coal is much less opposed than nuclear, and thus coal is being built.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 01:52:54 PM EST
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Re: Speaking of Downplayed Victims (4.00 / 2)

That's unfair and you know it.

Yes, that's why I didn't claim you actually made that claim, only that it can be read thus.

That unnecessarily and unfairly constrains the debate to the narrowness of most politicians' views about wind power and load distribution today.

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by DoDo on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 02:00:41 PM EST
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Chernobyl's Downplayed Victims | 49 comments (49 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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