You Can't Say Nuclear, That Really Scares Me ...
This line, taken from the jibjab.com Bush-Kerry pre-election parody, had Kerry making fun of GWB's inability to articulate the N word in a conventional way. Kerry, though, despite his superior enunciation of many words, didn't win. And his pro AE stance (apart from his hypocritical oppositon to the Cape Wind project) had him framing nuclear power as an evil to be eradicated.
AEman advises y'all to check out this piece by Richard Rhodes, a man who's been up to his neck in new-queue-lar research and history. Written many moons ago in 2000, "The Need for Nuclear Power" beats the crap out of current power gen approaches and also sucker punches solar and other AE methods. Like his point that if oil or coal plants had to sequester all of their waste products the way nukes do, their costs per kwh would skyrocket. Instead, because they can spew their greenhouse gases and other pollution into the atmosphere, they treat our air as their outhouse. That's not nice at all. Or fair. You must play fair, children.
Rhodes makes an interesting case for re-positioning the competition. Check it out.
posted by Andy Bochman at 10:13 PM
 
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