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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (81970)	12/18/2000 11:51:25 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Eventually (I think) more nuclear plants will have to be built, though expensively cleaned-up coal plants are also a possibility and might come first. I wish you would start thinking about where one might want to invest if one assumes that these things could happen. Your analysis of energy issues seems to me more thorough and reliable than anyone else's. Meantime, I see no way out of continued high natural gas prices for at least the next two years and maybe longer. I think many people are making a false analogy with what happened to oil prices in the last decade. That is, that a rapid rise inevitably means that there will be an equally rapid fall. As an investor I hope to make money off this, if only by banking very large payments from gas royalty trusts.

To: Think4Yourself who wrote (81970)	12/18/2000 11:57:31 AM
From: heraclitus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

John, One other point I forgot to mention about Naval plants (as you probably already know). The majority of the plant's output is designed to turn a propeller not generate electrical power. It is true that a ship/boat could backfeed to shore power but the available power would not be substantial. I was told that on an aircraft carrier like the Big "E", one whole reactor plant was dedicated to operation of the steam catipult for aircraft launch. I do not know if this is true as I was on a sub. Old sub sailor joke... There are only two types of ships in the Navy, submarines and targets <g>. regards homer