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From: mark@teltone.UUCP (Mark McWiggins)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: High-Tech Energy
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Date: Fri, 24-Aug-84 01:45:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 24 01:45:53 1984
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[Dave Ihnat:]
> The question is not whether we need nuclear power.  The question is:
> We need intense power sources for our industrial lifestyle.  Where do
> we get them, and where do we want to use them? (Note that I am NOT
> willing to 'conserve', if by conserve you mean back off to an
> energy-starved economy.  High-tech is the only way we're going to
> support this planet, and high-tech needs abundant energy.)
But we don't need intense power sources for cooking, home and hot water
heating, running stereos and lights, etc., as we now do things.  If we
switched to solar/gas/(photovoltaics?) for those things, we could use
the other "intense power sources" for industry.

And we wouldn't need nuclear power, an unnecessarily dangerous and
expensive way to boil water....

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