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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (480)	6/13/2001 1:00:19 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1715

the issue of bird kill is a red herring, You should know better than to believe facts and reality matter on an issue like that. What matters is that certain groups out there will oppose anything that remotely has the possibility of harming something so helpless as their feathered friends. It's the same BS that surrounds nuclear power. For one, there wouldn't be such a need to bury nuclear waste if we were permitted to recycle and reprocess the fuel and use it again. But the Uranium lobbies are against that because that hurts their mining business. As for disposal, I would suggest that is a minor issue given the technology we have today, AS WELL as the history of mother nature herself operating a few unlicensed underground reactors of her own: ymp.gov ymp.gov What happened to the nuclear waste left at Oklo? Once the natural reactors burned themselves out, the highly radioactive waste they generated was held in place deep under Oklo by the granite, sandstone, and clays surrounding the reactors’ areas. Plutonium has moved less than 10 feet from where it was formed almost two billion years ago.8 crpg.cnrs-nancy.fr But personally, let me offer one opinion here. I don't really have anything against wind. If people want to use it, then great. But to run a modern economy, we require cheap, clean energy. And wind will never be able to provide that kind of power, and neither will solar. And the only thing that can provide it controlled fission, and maybe one day, fusion. Imo, energy is one area where I could see the government undertaking a massive buildout of nuclear powerplants in areas that are more economically depressed, just as they did with the TVA and Hoover dam. If there is any area in the economy where government public works projects are justified, it's probably in the energy sector (and highways).. An economy runs on cheap and plentiful energy. And a happy economy is a happy consumer. A happy consumer makes for a happy stock market. And a happy stock market makes for a happy ME!! And you don't create long term cheap energy by placing price caps on the system. You let a competitive market smooth out the spikes and meet the demand. Hawk