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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (36441)	7/24/2003 5:34:14 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

DJ, it's better to take the molehill to Mohammed than the nuclear reactor to New Zealand, then having to cart the energy back to an SUV in Peoria [having converted the energy into a transportable form]. But your fears are ill-founded. There is heaps of coal, oil and gas, not to mention heavy bituminous goop. There's enough to keep us going for a hundred years, by which time the other ill-founded rumour, the dreaded population explosion, will have turned out to be a population bust. Well before the bust though, the energy needed per person will drop. Americans might think [some of them anyway] that an oil-powered SUV and big air-conditioned house is the last word in happiness. Unfortunately, as those of them gobbling Prozac on the way to the cubicle or mall in their SUV can attest, happiness doesn't come as standard equipment in an SUV. What's really good about burning oil, coal and gas, is that it's easily delivered to where it's needed, then after it's burned, the CO2 automatically floats off to our agricultural departments. Farmers don't even need to produce their own CO2. Well, they do to really get fast growth in greenhouses, but they can get better growth with more CO2 in the air. Plants have had a hard time of it for eons since hydrocarbons were stripped from the biosphere. Now they can breathe again. It must be quite a relief for them because atmospheric CO2 levels had dropped to 100 parts per million or thereabouts. You are right though that it's time lots of people got back to their normal weight. Mqurice PS: We have lots of ocean here, which could do with a warmup, for swimming and to create a tropical fish paradise, [manatees love them too], so a few dozen nuclear power plants would be a great idea. We could use the cheap electricity too.