Re: Lester Brown’s “THE FLAWED ECONOMICS OF NUCLEAR POWER” Circulated by Charlie Hall to his “peak oil’ list for comment. Lester has been among the most farsighted observers of the collision between man and earth.
Charlie,
Lester does his usual great job, and makes everyone’s usual great error.
He expertly addresses a part of the puzzle without mentioning the whole puzzle that all the alternates look as bad.
I think the lack of solar and wind development at scale is fairly obvious, and the same as the reason he points to for the lack of new nuclear power plants. It’s not really economic. The same has been true during the whole 40 year vigorous search for alternative fuels. Continue reading Responses to Brown’s nuclear piece
It shows two main periods, 250 million years of irregularly steady diversity of primitive animal life, a sharp dip and then 250 million years of exploding diversity of modern animal life… which we in our stupidity are putting a great big dent in!