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To: JDN who wrote (39544)12/20/2000 5:37:34 PM
From: chitral   of 64865
 
I concede, we have far too many ecology nuts (and I am probably one of them), would you like any of our radioactive wastes. We have tons of the stuff. (Oh, the bounties of living near two Department of Energy facilities.)

Having worked at three different nuclear facilities, I can honestly tell you that there is no such thing as safe clean nuclear energy. I am a proponent of nuclear energy, they just need a way "properly" dispose of the "wastes."

Back to the Silicon Valley. The power outage is due the there huge increase in demand for electricity for silicon chip development and manufacture, and for running the millions of computers that keep the place running. (We have computers like New Zealand has sheep.) We have been growing by leaps and bounds during the last decade (the stock market didn't grow for nothing.) However, the electricity "transmission capacity" has not kept the pace. There is more than enough production in the entire U.S. it is getting it here that is the problem. And in most cases it is a political/finacial/bureaucratic log jam rather than a physical log jam. It is in this respect that I find that the U.S. energy policy is messed up.

As for loosing business, I doubt it. The most important commodity in the valley is brain power. And the bodies attached to them seem to like it here (even with the exorbitant housing costs and extreme commutes).

Chitral
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