Re: Greens add to Greenhouse gasses

2012-11-27 Thread ALBERTO VIEIRA FERREIRA MONTEIRO
For God's sake (written as 日本酒), Japan had the earthquake of the century, it hit hard on the nuclear plants, and almost nothing happened. If this is not a very good security test on nuclear power, then I don't know what could be. Maybe hit a nuclear plant with an airplane? Alberto Monteiro

Re: Greens add to Greenhouse gasses

2012-11-27 Thread Kevin O'Brien
On 11/26/2012 9:21 PM, Dan Minette wrote: Since we don't want this list dominated by carved Norwegian tourist shop items, I thought I'd throw out an argument. I have seen Germany and Japan shutting down nuclear energy, after the Greens have suceeded in making it non-PC. They had argued that the

Bruce Bartlett on how he saw the light

2012-11-27 Thread Kevin O'Brien
A conservative economist tells how he learned about epistemic closure and got banned from Fox. http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/revenge-of-the-reality-based-community/ Regards, -- Kevin B. O'Brien zwil...@zwilnik.com A damsel with a dulcimer in a vision once I saw.

Re: Greens add to Greenhouse gasses

2012-11-27 Thread Klaus Stock
I think you are correct in that. The only thing I would add is that the design of the Fukushima plant was very old, and that modern designs are even safer. Um, like the german SNR-300 design? Yup, the first reactor with a core catcher! Which was, of course, dismantled. Apparently, there's only

Re: Greens add to Greenhouse gasses

2012-11-27 Thread Klaus Stock
This issue is not being resolved rationally, but then very few people approach problems that way. Twitter compressed solution Really cheap power if we bootstrap by building one power satellite and use it for propulsion lasers to bring up parts for thousands. If anyone wants to know more,

RE: Greens add to Greenhouse gasses

2012-11-27 Thread Dan Minette
Really cheap power if we bootstrap by building one power satellite and use it for propulsion lasers to bring up parts for thousands. With all due respect, Keith, I've been hearing arguments like this for 50 years. One thing would help you establish credibility. Can you point to a design of