Re: OT: Before Gore.. 1922 article on Global Warming

Lindakay wrote:
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The disconnet is in your propaganda. That is not what happened.
Rather than explain it all to you, I have a web site where I read many
hours about science that can straighten you out some - if you believe
in scientific formulations at all:

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/spring01/nuclear_power.html

LK

Wonder if you missed the synopsis, of the article that YOU pointed to..
addmitedly it was towards the end, but did you ever read it that far?

"electric utilities, which operate the most capital-intensive industry in
the nation, were paying 17 percent interest on loans for the construction of
power plants. This might have been a bearable escalation in cost, were it
not for the fact that the construction time for nuclear power plants was
being stretched out from eight years to up to twenty-thanks to anti-nuclear
"intervenors" who made a profession out of tying up utilities in court. No
company, no matter how solvent, could pay such interest rates, for two
decades, while waiting to recoup the cost from the generation of power."

True, they are called "anti-nuclear interveneors" instead of eco-nazis, but
look up in a thesaurus what that named is called now (hint, eco-nazis)

Or how bout the captions fronm the charts?
"Figure 3
ENVIRONMENTAL DELAYS AND USURIOUS FINANCE CHARGES SENT THE COST OF NUCLEAR
POWER ZOOMING UPWARD

Nuclear power is not intrinsically expensive. What drove nuclear plant costs
up were environmentalist delays (caused by anti-nuclear "intervenors" and
the high interest financing rates-both perpetrated by those who wanted to
kill nuclear power, and who now complain that nuclear costs too much. Shown
here, in dollars per kilowatt are the rising costs of financing,
environmentalist delays, and construction materials increases for nuclear
(N) and the rising costs for comparable coal-fired plants (C) with sulfur
removal"




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