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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (73387)	7/17/2006 12:00:55 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361049

Atomic balm - a nuclear renaissance? (excerpts) Jon Gertner, New York Times The NY Times gives a critical and comprehensive report on a possible renaissance in nuclear energy. Peak oil, global warming and `stabilization wedges' are discussed. Gertner writes: "...to spend a few months listening to those who study the earth’s energy resources is to get the feeling that we are in for a very difficult century — and one that depends on an immediate future of difficult and unpleasant choices." published July 16, 2006. energybulletin.net or Message 22630474 ============== 15 wedges - Doubling fuel efficiency of 2 billion cars from 30 to 60 mpg - Decreasing the number of car miles traveled by half - Using best efficiency practices in all residential and commercial buildings - Producing current coal-based electricity with twice today’s efficiency - Replacing 1400 coal electric plants with natural gas-powered facilities - Capturing and storing emissions from 800 coal electric plants - Producing hydrogen from coal at six times today's rate and storing the captured CO2 - Capturing carbon from 180 coal-to-synfuels plants and storing the CO2 - Adding double the current global nuclear capacity to replace coal-based electricity - Increasing wind electricity capacity by 50 times relative to today, for a total of 2 million large windmills - Installing 700 times the current capacity of solar electricity - Using 40,000 square kilometers of solar panels (or 4 million windmills) to produce hydrogen for fuel cell cars - Increasing ethanol production 50 times by creating biomass plantations with area equal to 1/6th of world cropland - Eliminating tropical deforestation and creating new plantations on non-forested land to quintuple current plantation area - Adopting conservation tillage in all agricultural soils worldwide Message 22630495

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (73387)	7/17/2006 1:39:22 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361049

The proposed "solutions" or mitigation strategies would be identical to those required to address depletion and Peak Oil .. Ethanol production is often touted as a remedy for peak oil, but it does nothing to help global warming.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (73387)	7/17/2006 9:25:05 PM
From: Triffin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361049

This was my follow-up to the previous comment .. Don't forget the intended audiences' degree of understanding of the subject matter .. From a govenment's propaganda campaign point of view it's going to be alot easier to rally the troops around the necessary changes in our energy habits/lifestyles via the GW argument rather than the realities of PO/fossil fuel depletion .. TPTB have to use a 'cover story' .. I'm just advocating that GW is what's going to be used to accomplish powerdown/PO mitigation/fuel switching etc etc .. Triff .. [ Parent \| Reply to This ] Triff ..