Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Nuclear

[JAshburne (JAshburne]

Once again Ken's magic with words sums it up better than I ever  could!
 
John
 
 
In a message dated 8/10/2008 10:22:01 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
rentiers [at] me.com writes:

Rick  said:

"There are only two options; (1) find another source of high  energy  
or, (2) consume so much less that the other sources like wind  and  
photoelectric will suffice. "

Exactly. In a word: the  flux capacitor.

The question is not how much oil is left, the question  is do we wish  
to sustain a technologically advanced civilization. We  have one now.  
We cool and heat our houses, communicate at great  distances, we travel  
across the planet at many times the speed of  walking, we eat things  
that have not spoiled in weeks or  months.

If we want air conditioning, the internet, UPS, amazon.com,  the  
Ferrari List, the NFL, Las Vegas vacations, cellphones,  traffic  
signals or even traffic period we have to get beyond  conservation and  
organic rutabaga gardens on the rooftops. Beyond  inefficient windmills  
and 100 Mile indigenous diets. Beyond stupid  curly-fry Chinese  
lightbulbs full of mercury. All the Green Movement  feel-good crap.

Conservation buys time, but time until what? When the  forests of  
Europe began to run out it was "time until coal fires the  Industrial  
Revolution". The catalyst came the day it became cheaper  to burn coal  
than wood. But in 2008 we are blunting the forces of  supply and demand  
through regulatory interference with energy  companies, drilling  
leases, refinery construction and any form of  nuclear research. The  
big particle accelerator is in Cern on the  border of France and  
Switzerland. China is building 50 additional  nuclear plants as this is  
written. South Korea and India too,  envision a nuclear future.  
Meanwhile America is wringing its hands  about the happy breeding  
grounds of Santa's Reindeer. Neither  presidential candidate has a clue.

The blithely ignorant 'do something'  by riding their Vespas to Whole  
Foods to frolic amongst the organic  farm-fresh eggs in their hemp  
clothing and pastel-hued crocs. It's  all feel-good smoke and mirrors.  
Where did the crocs, the clothes  and all those shrivelled brown apples  
come from? Hell if I know; but  they came from there by burning fossil  
fuels. Energy delivered the  consumables to this refrigerated temple of  
high-priced groceries for  drooling idiots.

When the electricity goes off we won't even be able to  huddle around  
the campfire in a cave as our ice-age ancestors did.  Ice-age man was  
so thinly scattered that it was very unusual for one  small band to  
encounter another tribe. If modern civilization  reverts to the stone  
age, which is where our current path leads us,  there won't be enough  
caves and the firewood will very quickly run  out. Price out a six-pak  
of kindling at the 7-11 if you doubt  this.

RIck said it first; we have only two options. Two options: and  those  
are "Warp Six, Mr. Sulu!" or "ooga ooga  mushka"


http://cdsweb.cern.ch/
http://www.domain-b.com/industry/power/20080809_nuclear_power.html
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/060908_humans_odd.html

ken







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