[Greenbuilding] between a rock and a shoulder season

[sanjay jain]

I recommend this documentary: http://pandoraspromise.com/

It's made by ex-nuclear-power activists. The documentary claims there are people living without problems around Chernobyl, and that while nuclear plant accidents are bad, they don't actually have the long term effects that everyone claims.

It claims that newer designs are much safer and that we need to look to nuclear power to avoid catastrophic climate change.

It also claims that Solar has killed more people than nuclear.


~sanjay



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 From: Reuben Deumling <9watts at gmail.com>
To: Green Building <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org> 
Sent: Monday, June 9, 2014 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] between a rock and a shoulder season
 







On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:33 AM, LarenCorie <larencorie at axilar.net> wrote:

From: Reuben Deumling <9watts at gmail.com>
>
>
>To us *electricity *to heat anything, to me, is bordering
>>on the sacrilegious.
>>
>Hi Reuben;
>
>I strongly disagree with you. The electric grid is the only utility
>that is delivering clean energy from 100% green sources. 

We've disagreed about this before, Laren. I appreciate the sun and the wind as much as the next person, but 

(a) the infrastructure to capture and distribute them at grid scale is 100% not renewable (everything about wind and solar at grid scale is reliant on fossil fuels: mining, transportation and manufacturing of the turbines & panels and wires and towers), and

(b) because of this I'd rather wince at that dependance and use the wind and solar distributed at grid scale for things that rubbing two sticks together won't accomplish, like powering a computer or a refrigerator. 

 


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