Why Its Pointless To Argue With Global Warming Believers 2006
China has 10 nuclear power facilities presently under construction, and plans to bring 30 plants online in the next 15 years. There is very little reason to believe China will not be able to do this.
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------------------------------------------------------------------------- Critics of all political persuasions have insisted that such "breakneck" speed in nuclear power plant construction cannot be achieved. John Moens, an analyst at the U.S. Department of Energy, begged to differ. On Jan. 15, he told the New York Times: "In 1970 we had a net capability of 7 million kilowatt hours of nuclear generating capacity in the U.S., and by 1981 we had reached 56 million kilowatt hours. So the rate of growth the Chinese propose is not only conceivable, it has been done before." -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nothing I'm proposing here requires any fundamentally new technology. If we decided to do these things, we could do them, starting today.
It doesn't. I was talking about reliance on fossil fuels. Destruction of rain forrest is a different matter, which can get pretty tricky. But I will point out that discouraging Brazilian subsistence farmers from cutting down rain forests would be a hell of a lot easier than preventing them from having more than one kid per family.
I'm talking about solutions to our energy problems using well understood, present-day technologies that already have a reasonable cost, as demonstrated by their real-world market prices.
Everything I'm proposing is far, far easier than cutting the Earth's population in half.
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