[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: TSHTF

[Keith Winston]

Don't underestimate the nuclear industry. They are poised for a BIG 
comeback. They are licking their lips with climate change. They've got a 
whole new set of "too cheap to meter" integrated closed-cycle 
safer-than-teddy-bears generation of standard-plan low-budget 
made-in-China (ok, I made up that part, but stay tuned) power plants 
that they are pushing bigtime in the background. Keep that sling handy, 
and keep gathering those pebbles.

Keith


Lawrence Lile wrote:
> William Wrote:
>   
>> I am doing my best now to be a cynical optimist--aware
>>     
> of the problems but excited by the possibilities.  It
> is an infinitely difficult balance to achieve (hence
> the oxymoron), and one I fail on more times than not
> (on the cynical side always) but for me the only one
> that makes sense in this sometimes ridiculous,
> sometimes beautiful world.
>
>
> I hit a wall working in the anti-nuke movement years ago - it seemed
> hopeless, David didn't even have a rock and Goliath was in an Armored
> Personnel Carrier.  Then suddenly, Nuclear power seemingly croaked of
> it's own weight, new orders were canceled, etc.  Probably had nothing to
> do with our puny efforts, and more with Three Mile Island, but popular
> opinion does sway those folks. 
>
> There are rumblings about new nuclear generation in the US.  With the
> price tag of a 1000 megawatt nuke at $2 billion and climbing ($2 a peak
> watt), and solar cell costs plummeting toward the $1 a peak watt magic
> number, the wake-up call is coming soon.  Utilities are already looking
> closely at large scale solar installations, and I expect this to become
> the norm within 15 years.  Nuke plant plans could make good mulch for
> tomatoes, or be used for wrapping fish, School children could color on
> the backs of the plan sheets,  there are a lot of uses for those plans.
>
>
>   It probably seemed pretty hopeless to Mandela in his cell, or to the
> victims of the holocaust, but Desmond Tutu and Ghandi both said that
> eventually, these insurmountable problems fall to history's march.  
>
> I have to keep telling myself this, because I hear so much negative
> doom-and-gloom from the environmental movement.  I canceled my
> subscriptions to a lot of that stuff (Progressive, Mother Jones, etc)
> and got a subscription to ODE, because I could not stand the weight of
> all that negativity.  (check them out  www.odemagazine.com/ they try to
> print a positive spin on progressive news.)  
>
> OK, sure, we are pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and it
> could have dire consequences if left unchecked.  So we must act, and
> preserve our sanity in the process.   The process of changing the planet
> must also involve the process of changing our inner selves.  History
> will look back at our era as the Golden Age of Green consciousness,
> after we fix all these problems.  
>
>
> Lawrence Lile, PE, LEED AP
> Project Solutions Engineering
>
>
>
>
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