http://www.karsten-wenzlaff.de/2007/10/05/no-thank-you-please-sit-down-debating-in-cambridge/ politics, economics, media in a digital revolution Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:51:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.karsten-wenzlaff.de/2007/10/05/no-thank-you-please-sit-down-debating-in-cambridge/comment-page-1/#comment-82076 richard shaw Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:04:37 +0000 http://www.karsten-wenzlaff.de/2007/10/05/no-thank-you-please-sit-down-debating-in-cambridge/#comment-82076 Coal burning is an atrocity to nature that must be stopped or at least reduced; natural gas is great but expensive; oil is good, but will probably runout this century, or at least be hoarded to drive costs to impossible heights; wind power is good, if millions and millions of large, 2000kw or better turbines can be built, but can they; nuclear energy is the only practical answer. China and India will probably each build 300 or more plants this century; America should build hundreds (GE, a no-nonsense company, says that they can build plants from first concrete pour to reactor critical in 36 months); the NRC expects 29 license applications within the next three years. Coal burning is an atrocity to nature that must be stopped or at least reduced; natural gas is great but expensive; oil is good, but will probably runout this century, or at least be hoarded to drive costs to impossible heights; wind power is good, if millions and millions of large, 2000kw or better turbines can be built, but can they; nuclear energy is the only practical answer. China and India will probably each build 300 or more plants this century; America should build hundreds (GE, a no-nonsense company, says that they can build plants from first concrete pour to reactor critical in 36 months); the NRC expects 29 license applications within the next three years.

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