At 09:01 14-7-01 -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
> > Then you come along and claim nuclear energy is green. Now who do
> > you think will be more credible: the entire collection of programs,
> > articles, environmentalist groups and individual environmentalists, or
> > a single individual who, of all places, works in the oil business --
> > the one business that has a lot to lose?
>
>Umm, that's an easy question. Dan is much more credible. He posts
>well-researched articles with logical arguments that are scientifically
>sound and gives references to credible sources.
No argument with that last sentence, but...
>Many of the others that
>you mention post emotional diatribes that clearly show they do not
>understand or care about the math, science, and engineering details, and
>have dubious (or non-existant) references.
Wow, that's a blanket statement if there ever was one.
Allow me throw in a few of them too.
<rant mode>
Great. You just called hords of journalists, and hundreds of thousands of
environmentalists, emotional liars who don't have a clue what they are
talking about... :(
Of course, none of those journalists ever bothered to check the facts
first. Of course not -- heaven forbid they'd actually do something as
unethical as publishing real facts. And no environmentalist group would
ever bother to check the facts either, or hire a scientist to do it for
them. That would be an outrage, wouldn't it -- environmentalist groups
actually showing the world what big corporations are doing to the
environment in the name of the Sacred Quarterly Profits, and backing it up
with factual information...
And all those individual environmentalists take whatever Greenpeace says
for gospel, because they obviously can't think for themselves (otherwise,
they would be smashing solar panels and windmills, and dance around the
nearest nuclear plant in worship).
Of course, every executive in the oil and nuclear business is completely
honest and only unselfishly has the best interest of the entire world in
mind. They wouldn't even *dream* of falsifying research data, or bending
and twisting the results in such a way that the outcome is what they want
to hear, or hide information about the environmental effects of their
business, or try to discredit anyone who disagrees with them...
</rant mode>
Jeroen
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