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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I you want safe energy generation,
nuclear or other, just require insurance to cover all damage,
personal injury and deaths coverage at the 90th wrongful death
settelment level. I do not know all the things needed to make
complex, dangerous processes highly unlikely to do do damage,
however with this kind of insurance requirement I think a lot of
the best experts will be working on extremely safe designs.
Somewhat similar rules might be applied to mining and processing
industries. <br>
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Making explicit rules does not control things well. taxes work
much better, If they are not suficintly efecitve they can be
adjusted. If not suffiently global impose them on all imports
based on worst poluting in source country. <br>
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Alass, not achievable in the curent culture. <br>
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craig <br>
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On 1/22/2015 10:09 AM, Bob Stuart wrote:<br>
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This must be a troll from under the Nuclear bridge. I live near
the first Uranium mines, which are still leaking and producing
mutants. By the time they, and all the other hazards have been
cleaned up, there is likely to be no net gain at all. The
potential of nuclear is tiny without re-processing, which has
never worked. It is dwarfed not only by wind, but by hydrothermal
vents, the smallest of which puts out the power of several big
nukes. The only thing nukes are good for is producing bomb
material and corruption in politics. Just try to get one insured
if you don't believe me.
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<div>On 22-Jan-15, at 8:49 AM, Kermit Schlansker wrote:</div>
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</span><span> </span>We have no right to
dismiss Global Warming. The consequences are so
dire that if the probability of warming occurring
were only .1% we still would have to act.
Furthermore the question really is whether we have
to conserve or not. As the years go by we will run
out of many resources including fossil fuels and
it is imperative that we conserve them. Still
another reason is that by reducing consumption we
can reduce the basic cost of living and that will
be essential at a time where poverty is
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</span>It is imperative that we build more nuclear
plants because that is the only source of energy
large enough to save us from total despair. Solar,
biomass and wind can never produce enough to
satisfy our needs. However energy sources are only
competitive in terms of priority and price. We
need all of them. Some of them are much easier to
finance than nuclear and we must proceed on all
fronts. We must develop all types of energy
conservation and alternate energy production in
order to keep the cost and number of nuclear
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</span>Geometry is the best tool for conserving
energy. Cities must be designed a square mile at a
time. That square mile should be packed with
apartment houses, factories, multi-purpose
buildings, a department store, and anything else
that is needed for every day life. Towns should be
so designed that “walking to work will save the
earth” The construction of single family houses
should be stopped. The first step is to stop
subsidizing them in any way. Apartments will save
large amounts of heating energy and the
compactness they can create will greatly reduce
transportation energy. City and county governments
must assist in the formation of car pools.
Apartments are the only way of saving energy that
costs nothing because we need a place to live
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</span>Energy saving devices such as cogeneration,
comanufacturing, combustion driven heat pumps, and
solar mirrors for both power generation and
heating must be developed. Biomass gasifying and
biodigestion must be experimented with. Large
amounts of biomass including fruit trees must be
planted. Cities must plant parks and streets with
edible plants. It is essential that sewage be
biodigested along with other biomass and used to
make fertilizer, fuel gas, and clean water The
digestion residues can initially be used for
fertilizing energy crops in order to avoid
pollution problems</font></font></font></div>
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</span>There should be large farms with apartment
houses on them rather than single family houses
that destroy both cropland and wilderness.
Experimental farming should develop both energy
and food crops. Farm apartment buildings are ideal
places to experiment with heating, cooling, small
windmills, and solar energy. </font></font></font></div>
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</span>It is imperative that city, State, and
county governments get involved in initiating
large energy projects such as an energy farm or
experimental low heat apartments. A universal
factory would also be a good project. In order to
do this they should work together to start and
finance such projects. It is as essential to make
it easier for ordinary citizens to form
cooperatives and small corporations that would do
energy or food projects. There should be a roster
in city hall of people that wish to buy stock and
help to form such projects.</font></font></font></div>
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</span>Kermit Schlansker<span> </span>PE<span>
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