On Oct 21, 2014, at 10:37 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

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> I remember hearing Obama's first Sec of Energy talking about how nuke power was necessary as a 'bridge' to a 'Green Future'. When asked about the 'anti-nukes' he said, with a smile, something like "They'll just have to get over it"<sic>
> Well he never got anything going at all & now he's gone, isn't he?

Thayt’s HARDLY due to nukes. He said something as innocuous as “Hey we could save a lot of money on energy bills just by paingin roofs with white paint; we should have a program to do that” and the right wing tore him a new one as some sort of commie leftist tyrant “How DARE you tell us what color to paint our roofs!!!”

(And 99% of them went home to their gated communities covered by CCA’s that tell, them, in no uncertain terms, just exactly what color they’re allowed to paint their roofs.)

Germany dumped their nukes in response to Fukushima, which was not an altogether idiotic thing to do. If a country as allegedly technocratic and competent as Japan could have such a disaster, the people of Germany certainly thought that they no longer wished to have that risk.

YOU may think it’s irrational, but that doesn’t make it so.

Total costs are not calculated in relation to "political prejudices and ideology”. Contracts may be agreed to on a "You tell me what you want & I'll make the numbers support it” basis, but reality has this REALLY annoying habit of ignoring our attempts to override it. I’m sure that mainframe contract turned out, in the end to be the cheapest, right? :-/

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