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Whoa, calm down. As stated before on the list, my objection to fission power is that it seems like a very expensive way to boil water-- like using an A bomb to make tea. And this: " The *fact* that coal power and other fossil power has killed far more than commercial nuclear doesnt seem to phase you or Louis at all" is 1)uncalled for and 2)bullshit-- complete, utter total bullshit. When was the last time you heard Louis or myself praising coal mines? I certainly don't understand everything about the carbon caused climate crisis but I certainly do understand how destructive coal mining has been, and how socially destructive oil production has been, oil production being modern capitalism's equivalent of cotton production in the 19th century. I was responding to your comparison of radiation to chocolate. And I stand by that response to your comparison of radiation of chocolate. You were not, and I am not, comparing radiation to oil drilling, or strip mining. I don't think wind and solar will be able to replace all of fossil fuel production, given the amount of energy required to make solar socially viable. Until there's a more efficient and compact way of generating electicity in mobile platforms, I don't see how we're going to get away from hydrocarbon sources of energy for transportation. But that's not the point either. The point is that current nuclear technologhy seems like a very advanced way of primitively producing energy, and that the potential for disaster is huge given that the same companies that strip mine, fracture for natural gas, will also control nuclear power plants. ----- Original Message ----- From: "DW" <dwalters...@gmail.com> ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
