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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy



according to http://www.zinsser.com/spence/bcc/nuclear.html nuclear
development is back on track.
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Harold Brashears <brshears@whale.st.usm.edu> wrote in article
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> jmc@Steam.stanford.edu (John McCarthy) wrote for all to see:
> 
> >Jay Hanson includes:
> >
> >     You may not remeber, but we humans have already appropriated
> >     nearly 50% of the terrestrial net product of
> >     photosynthesis. In other words, all solar energy is now
> >     being used -- one way or another.
> >
> >The "in other words" is mistaken.
> >
> >Most of the sun's energy that strikes the earth is not causing
> >photosynthesis of any kind.  It just warms the ground and is
> >re-radiated.  It is available for solar electric power or for
> >increasing the total amount of photosynthesis.
> >
> >He also repeats that uranium is only 4 parts per million of the
> >earth's crust.  Correct.  He says we are nearly out of usable uranium
> >assuming we don't use breeder reactors.  This is old information.  We
> >aren't nearly out, because rich new uranium deposits have been
> >discovered.  However, in the long run we will use breeder reactors.
> >
> >Hanson also includes:
> >
> >     As far as "nukes" go, 35 years wouldn't even get you past
> >     the lawsuits.  Nukes are a political no-go.
> >
> >Coupling this with his prediction of industrial civilization
> >collapsing, it suggests that humanity in general and the U.S. in
> >particular would rather perish than overcome legal guerrilla warfare.
> >Does he really believe that?
> 
> I don't know if he believes it or not, but I do think he hopes for it.
> 
> Regards, Harold
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> human populations back to sanity, it would probably be 
> something like AIDS."
>      - Earth First newsletter,  December 1989, 
> 	Vol. 17, No. 4, Access to Energy.
>