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Re: The Limits To Growth



Alastair McKinstry <alastair@kbhr.ilo.dec.com> wrote:

dlj wrote, about energy: 
>> Not a problem.
>
>But it is a problem. A major cause of misunderstanding in this debate
>is whether you do the calculations based on the rest of the world wanting
>an American (or European) scale of consumption. If you do allow for the
>rest of the worlds' aspirations, then we don't have hundreds of years
>worth of gas,oil,coal,etc; we can't build fission reactors fast enough
>(to western safety standards, at least) and fusion will not be here
>near fast enough. 
>
 
Of course we can.  We built nuclear reactors by the dozen off assembly
lines int he fifties and sixties.  Those were the engines for the cold
war submarines on all sides.  Some of the assembly lines are still in
existence, and others can easily be built, and just as fast as the
previous ones.
 
As soon as the price of oil rises to the price of uranium, per
terajoule, we'll simply crank the process up again.  McKinstry is
simply being silly.
 
                                    -dlj.
 




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