Re: Electric car economics


Don Lancaster wrote:
<<snip>>

> Not enough information is known to yet determine whether nuclear energy
> will be a very minor energy source or a monumental energy sink.
>
> The outcome depends on how the next four or five Cherynobles turn out,
> plus the storage resolution.

No matter which Cyrillic-to-Latin transliteration scheme you come up
with, "Cherynoble" is an offensively correct misspelling. Unless you
are talking about a MM lookalike contest held on top of the entombed
reactor where contestants model the "The Misfits" dress.

Chernobyl was a uniquely bad disaster caused by operating a type of
reactor used nowhere in the Western world, without containment. It was
in fact a weapons plutonium production plant thinly disguised as a
power reactor. While nuclear disasters are possible with modern BWR and
PWR power plants, no possible worst case scenario comes within two
orders of magnitude of Chernobyl.

You don't have to LIKE nuclear power, but it is in fact a significant
net energy source and could be much more so if the choice were starkly
one of massive nuclear ramp-up or a return to 1880's living standards.
NIMBY would be run out of town quickly once the reality of candle light
and horseshit on the streets set in.

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