Re: solar cells toxic
From: quibbler (quibbler247_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/28/04
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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:42:57 -0600
In article <40DEAC28.35B4FCF1@eagle.ca>, gcowan@eagle.ca says...
>
> Um, no, it is letting the worse (but very lucrative)
> be the enemy of the better.
>
> Quibbler seems to like the idea of fossil fuel taxation,
Actually, I merely seem to not be afflicted with an irrational fear of
any and all legitimate forms of taxation. I think that many economists
would agree that some level of taxation is required for all governments
to function and that fossil fuel taxation, in particular, can create
some advantages.
> and earlier when I referred to the witlessness of
> anonymous petrodollar liars he seemed to think that
> by my remark, some defense of *his* intelligence had been called for.
Hummmm....funny how that does occasionally happen, though I'm not sure
that my recent comments to you dwelt on that point. I believe I
complained about the cranky tone of your rhetoric, comparing anti-nukies
to saucer cults and all.
>
> Suppose the order comes down for fat-bottomed
> civil servants to do some real work in the energy sector,
> pull their weight, would Quibbler rather his stint be
> a day in a uranium mine
> or a year in a coal mine or offshore oil platform?
Again, it would depend upon the safety equipment available. But I'd
probably rather by be in a number of safer environments like at wind
farms or many solar facilities.
> *That* -- as brianb says -- is a more honest version of the choice.
No, not really. A more honest version would probably allow me to
substitute some other renewable energy generation facility, as opposed
to fossil/fissile mining.
> As quibbler has it above, it is as if the choice is simply
> nuclear work, or sitting back drinking beer.
Well, I think there would be little contest in that case.
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threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, 'mad cow'
disease, and many others, but I think a case can be
made that faith is one of the world's great evils,
comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to
eradicate." -- Richard Dawkins
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