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From: dick@tjalk.UUCP (Dick Grune)
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Subject: Re: alternate, hopefully safe, energy sources
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Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 11:54:22 EDT
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Once we have unlimited energy (and the FUSION reaction provides that) and
high enough technology (and FUSION requires that), we can solve most of our
environment problems.

With energy galore we can:
-	use electricity for almost everything (now its too expensive to be
	used seriously);
-	turn oil into nylon stockings or nylon stockings into oil (or whatever
	you fancy);
-	send off any offensive material into outer space;
-	mass-separate any radio-active material into its components and use
	them industrially;
-	blow the worst components to smithereens in an accellerator;
-	radiate the resulting thermal pollution off into space;
	....

Many good solutions nowadays are rejected because they are not economically
feasable; once we have fusion energy, they will be. It is like they say in
business, "The first million is the most difficult". I suppose we have another
50 or 100 years to get there, so at it, folks!

						Dick Grune
						Vrije Universiteit
						Amsterdam
"and my name isn't Richard"