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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (62874)	5/2/2008 4:18:10 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 541933

>>Why do you say that Coal is not sustainable? We have plenty of Coal reserves in this country. We have enough to keep us going with electricity for a hundred years at least. If you don't like Coal because of its Carbon footprint then you’re going to have to consider nuclear power as it the only zero carbon footprint fuel that we have available. And realistically renewable will never make up more than 20% of our power needs.<< Brian - Something that runs out in a hundred years is not sustainable. That's like the people of 1850 saying that whale oil based energy would last. It's not just the carbon footprint with coal, it's the destruction of the environment in mining it and the air pollution in addition to CO2 in burning it. And how do you figure solar and wind have more of a carbon footprint than nuclear? That last sentence is simply an unsupported supposition. It's meaningless. - Allen