<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 2:29 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>That 4% nuclear power comes from about 450 nuclear power stations.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>For nuclear power to make a significant impact it will require<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>building thousands of nuclear power stations. This will take many<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>years and cost trillions of rapidly devaluing currency.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><font size="4">Huh? If currency is rapidly devaluing <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">then </span>why is inflation <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">today</span> the lowest it's been in the nation's entire history?</font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>In the current environment it will take a huge change for this to<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>become acceptable, if it is even possible.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>Let's hope for nuclear fusion, or some other innovative energy source to appear.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></i><br></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">Replacing fossil fuels by ANYTHING, including nuclear fusion as well as fission, would be a HUGE change and require many trillions of dollars; but then COVID19 bungling by the USA has undoubtedly already cost many trillions of dollars.  A trillion here a trillion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.<br><br>John K Clark</font><br></div></div>