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"At 6:35 Mr. Gates made a serious mistake. He wrongly claimed that it did not matter how much energy was used as long as there was little or no output of CO2. We learned earlier, however, that energy from our usual sources results in global warming and that the role of CO2 appears to be small." This is madness. We "learned" nothing of the sort. Thermal energy accumulation is dissapted by the Earth existing surrounded by minus-100s of degrees C of the vacuum of space. The net effect is a loss of heat made up by solar input. The sun, not energy production, keeps the planet from becoming a ball of ice. You are also a climate change denier as you deny the effects of CO2 on planetary weather. "At 7:00 Gates barely avoided outright lying about nuclear power and CO2. Technically, it is correct to say: Nuclear power plants do not produce CO2 while generating energy. Actually it is meaningless because they do require the production of CO2 at twenty points on the nuclear fuel/reactor cycles to be able to generate energy." There are good reason to oppose nuclear energy that one can discuss. Legitmate concerns. This isn't one of them. "20 points" sounds like a lot when they are totally unspecificied. The CO2 output from nuclear energy from mining urainum to recycling and/or disposal is statistically irrelevant to CO2 accumulation, having the same or a little more CO2 output than the production of wind turbines. David ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
