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To: Hawkmoon who started this subject	1/15/2001 9:40:40 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) of 312

Jerry Pournelle is another sci-fi author who has written extensively on nuclear energy. In addition to many essays, he co-authored this book. jerrypournelle.com I think he and Hogan are friends, too. Let's hope this is another instance of poets and novelists taking the lead in showing us the future. My wife's grandfather sat on the board of various companies. He was (he's deceased now, unfortunately) an old fashioned, hard nosed, no nonsense industrialist. I recall a conversation I had with him a few years ago; he told me that in a few years every home would have a pea sized nuclear reactor built in to it. It would last for 50 years. When the thing ran out of juice, you would replace it as easy as changing a fuse. If anyone else had told me that I would have laughed, but this guy hated frivolity and was only interested in serious ideas. It seems so fantastic, I can't imagine it happening. But somewhere, on some drawing board, it must be taking shape.

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