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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
Unplug a few hundred million phantom electricity using devices that are essentially doing nothing productive, or put up more filthy nukes- or power plants of ANY sort?
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Two distinct points here. I completely agree on the first - cut out much of the waste, and we would not only not need to build more power plants, we could shut down some of the dirtiest.
But when you say that nukes are filthy... well, that brings us back to the old Mark Twain saying about the things we know for sure that just ain't so. What's sadly ironic here is the sight of people who rightly chide the AGW denialists for ignoring science, turning right around and ignoring science when it conflicts with their quasi-religious "nukes are sinful" beliefs.
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I don't know why you and Varn and some others are so gung-ho about new power plants...
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Because if you build a new, clean nuclear plant, you could conceiveably shut down an old, dirty coal plant. And if you combined that with increased energy efficiency, you could shut down TWO of them.