Re: A voluntary Blackout?
From: Max More (max@maxmore.com)
Date: Tue May 22 2001 - 13:45:20 MDT
At 11:19 AM 5/22/01, Eliezer wrote:
I think the Onion got this one
absolutely right. We should build another
200 nuclear power plants and move on to real issues. France did it,
so
can we.
I think there is a place for new energy sources, and I like the idea of a
more distributed system using microturbines and fuel cells, when they are
economical. However, I also favor more nuclear power and have done so for
a long time. Since I last really looked into the field a decade or so
ago, plenty of advancements have come on line. Here's a summary of a
recent update on the topic:
06/01/01 The France Syndrome
eCompany by David Freedman
The author argues that nuclear power is due for a comeback in the United
States, and that we can look to France (where 75% of electricity comes
from nuclear plants) to know what to expect. Nuclear power has benefited
from technological advances. It has become cheaper and safer. This
article surveys improved designs for reactors and better control and
monitoring systems. Thanks to less downtime (and concurrent safety
improvements), nuclear power is now the lowest cost major method of
generating electricity. Apart from cost, non-Soviet nuclear power’s
environmental performance over the last 20 years is almost spotless.
Several economic, political, and social forces are combining to make it
likely that nuclear power will expand over time in the U.S. This article
is a good source of information on this future trend. (6 pages)
http://www.ecompany.com/articles/mag/0,1640,11644,00.html
Onward!
Max
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