[Rhodes22-list] Global Warming - Mike W, just go (Political reply) (Big Al may delete)

[Alan Robertson]

It is interesting that 80% of France's electricity is generated via uranium reactors and they have never had a problem since their construction. The media in the USA killed new atomic power with their sensationalistic reporting of the 3 Mile Island Reactor's moderately  radio active steam release, which was what the system was designed to do in case of a core problem. What do the French know that we don't? 
How many fossil fuel generating plants would have NOT been operating today if our atomic energy electricity generating program had been allowed to progress 30 years ago with private capital investment?
Of course the French had a hidden agenda; their plants are sited near the Germany border so if there is a "French Cheyrnoble ," the cloud  of radioactivity will blow East towards Germany with prevailing westerly winds!!
Al Robertson
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael D. Weisner<mailto:mweisner at ebsmed.com> 
  To: The Rhodes 22 mail list<mailto:rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:25 PM
  Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Global Warming - Mike W,just go (Political reply) (Big Al may delete)


  Ed,

  I have read your postings, well most of them, anyway.  While I am not 
  looking for political alignment on the topic of GW (nor even GwB), it would 
  be nice to determine if GW is indeed occuring and if so, is it something to 
  be concerned with.  Of course, this begs the question "Is there really 
  anything that I can do about it?"  Several arguments concerning alternate 
  fuels (corn ethanol) have been made indicating that while they may reduce 
  dependence on foreign oil they do little for GW.  In addition, several 
  discussions concerning electric vehicles, particularly the real cost of 
  battery manufacture, transportation and eventual disposal indicate that 
  their usage may not make good environmental  sense.

  Mike
  s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
  Nissequogue River, NY

  From: "Tootle" <ekroposki at charter.net<mailto:ekroposki at charter.net>> Wednesday, December 19, 2007 3:51 PM
  >
  >
  > Mike W:
  >
  > Just go back and reread all my post referencing Global Warming over the 
  > last
  > year.  Captain Rummy has yet to tell me how the Vikings caused the ice
  > covering their farms in Greenland after 1000 A. D.  Yes the ice is melting
  > today, yes it is getting a little warmer, but is this the first time??? 
  > Al
  > Gore gets a prize from the lefty media, but his portrayals are just not
  > accurate.  Yes the carbon is building up in the atmosphere, but should the
  > USA alone return its standard of living to that of the middle ages or
  > earlier?
  >
  > Stop and get more facts and more accurate data.  Find real alternatives to
  > fossel fuels that are better.  As Captain Haslett has pointed out, the 
  > cost
  > of the ethenol fuels, exceeds their benfits.  I will not accept Gore's
  > arrogant and shallow analysis as the truth.
  >
  > Capitalism has bettered mankind.  It has made possible a better standard 
  > of
  > living for more than any socialist system.  If you believe that socialism 
  > is
  > the best alternative for mankind, go spend a few weeks in the former 
  > Soviet
  > Union. John Edwards is a socialist bent on destruction of America.
  >
  > Ed K
  > Greenville, SC, USA
  > Freedom of speech does not allow ludicrous assertions to be promulgated as
  > truth, but the liberal media does.
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