[ExI] A Nobel laureate and climate change

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 08:05:45AM -0700, spike wrote:

> Dennis, the ExI group is the biggest bunch of mavericks you ever saw, but
> your comment expresses the closest to a consensus on any topic I have seen

Definitely no consensus.

> in my 14 yrs hanging out here.  I think nearly everyone here recognizes

Nukes are dead, Jim. Not that they're even renewable.

> nukes have risks but no-nukes is a still riskier path.  It was a dark time

Don't look right now, but renewable is eathing both nuke and coal's lunch.
Natural gas' next.

> for me when those Japanese plants failed in the tsunami.

Actually, they failed well before the tsunami.
 
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> We need to get with the program, building nukes, strato-solar or equivalent
> notions, everything else we can think of, and (DAVAI)^3 get on it forthwith.

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