In Praise of Aunt Carrie!

[aoxamaxoa]

http://www.tulsaworld.com/NewsStory.asp?ID=061015_Fa_D1_Power8683

We were so lucky to have her dig in back in the '70's. Our premiere activist!

[sgrizzle]

Would be nice to live in a state where electric prices weren't almost 100% tied to gas prices...

[aoxamaxoa]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

Would be nice to live in a state where electric prices weren't almost 100% tied to gas prices...

Huh? Does that mean you'd prefer a reactor in our back yard?

[Ibanez]

Yeah....nothing like the NIMBY crowd doing all the can to make sure development never happens....then turn around and grumble about the lack of development.

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by aoxamaxoa

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

Would be nice to live in a state where electric prices weren't almost 100% tied to gas prices...

Huh? Does that mean you'd prefer a reactor in our back yard?

Yes. You can come put one in my backyard right now. Fossil Fuels are so Passe.

[si_uk_lon_ok]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

quote:Originally posted by aoxamaxoa

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

Would be nice to live in a state where electric prices weren't almost 100% tied to gas prices...

Huh? Does that mean you'd prefer a reactor in our back yard?

Yes. You can come put one in my backyard right now. Fossil Fuels are so Passe.

Renewable energies may have there place, but when it comes to generating large amounts of energy clean from carbon, nuclear energy is the only choice.

[aoxamaxoa]

si_uk_lon_ok... it is "their" not "there" and your opinion means nothing as your spelling indicates you are not smart just as the other unintelligent individuals here in support of nuclear energy.

[si_uk_lon_ok]

quote:Originally posted by aoxamaxoa

si_uk_lon_ok... it is "their" not "there" and your opinion means nothing as your spelling indicates you are not smart just as the other unintelligent individuals here in support of nuclear energy.

I'm very sorry that I can't spell. The fact is I was never taught grammar or spelling at school and I still ended up going to a world class university. I may not spell well, that is my dyslexia, but I am not dumb.

Today at work I was reading the Institute of Chartered Engineers. Out of the 32 leaders of the institute, 31 supported nuclear power. But I guess engineers are unintelligent too.

[RecycleMichael]

I understand dyslexia. I got invited to a toga party and I took a goat.

[sgrizzle]

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by aoxamaxoa

si_uk_lon_ok... it is "their" not "there" and your opinion means nothing as your spelling indicates you are not smart just as the other unintelligent individuals here in support of nuclear energy.

Using that argument, you are also disqualified since you think "proportioanality" is a word.

[Ibanez]

quote:Originally posted by aoxamaxoa

si_uk_lon_ok... it is "their" not "there" and your opinion means nothing as your spelling indicates you are not smart just as the other unintelligent individuals here in support of nuclear energy.

Hooray for open mindedness!

[si_uk_lon_ok]

quote:Originally posted by wavoka

Yeah....nothing like the NIMBY crowd doing all the can to make sure development never happens....then turn around and grumble about the lack of development.

I prefer the BANANA brigades; 'build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything'.

[Steve]

Whether or not you agree with her position on nuclear power (I do), you have to give the lady credit for taking a stance and fighting for what she believed.  She wasn't/isn't in this for fame or fortune, but for the health and safety of current and future generations.  She sold or mortgaged nearly everything she had for money to fight a big corporation, something very few people would do, then or now.  She has integrity and honesty, and I thank her very much.

[si_uk_lon_ok]

quote:Originally posted by Steve

Whether or not you agree with her position on nuclear power (I do), you have to give the lady credit for taking a stance and fighting for what she believed.  She wasn't/isn't in this for fame or fortune, but for the health and safety of current and future generations.  She sold or mortgaged nearly everything she had for money to fight a big corporation, something very few people would do, then or now.  She has integrity and honesty, and I thank her very much.

While I believe in standing for what you believe to be right, I think she made a dreadful mistake. For every clean nuclear power station that we build, we do not have to build a dirty carbon based fossil fuel power station. I believe the health and wellbeing of future generations will be damaged more by the impact of carbon emissions (global warming) than the side effects of the nuclear industry.
The construction of more nuclear power stations would have had a dramatic impact on reducing the emissions produced, so in a way the campaign to stop Black Fox and similar projects have done more to harm our planet than good.