Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site tjalk.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcvax!vu44!tjalk!dick From: dick@tjalk.UUCP (Dick Grune) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics Subject: Re: alternate, hopefully safe, energy sources Message-ID: <328@tjalk.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 11:54:22 EDT Article-I.D.: tjalk.328 Posted: Mon Aug 13 11:54:22 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Aug-84 05:23:59 EDT References: <798@ihuxx.UUCP> <9368@gatech.UUCP> <806@ihuxx.UUCP> Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 25 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"