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To: Moominoid who wrote (35331)	6/1/2008 7:16:01 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219507

Ignorant masses, 1986 Chernobyl and suffering today. Then the ignorant masses pushed governments to phased nuclear. Today there’s an U-Turn. Need nuclear as fixed fuel. Beware of ignorant masses using popular pressure for governments to act. They all end up doing bad to themselves. Same with Greenism. Forced governments to remove everything from mobile fuels, sulphur, CO2, NOx… Huge costs to car makers and to refiners of crude. Today they suffer. >>But conditions were very different in the 1980s, when European countries turned away from nuclear power: Oil cost under $50 a barrel, global warming was a fringe science and climate change had not been linked to man-made emissions. Perhaps more important for the public psyche, Europe’s nuclear bans and restrictions were almost all enacted in the years after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union.<< Italy Embraces Nuclear Power within five years it planned to resume building nuclear energy plants, two decades after a public referendum resoundingly banned nuclear power and deactivated all its reactors. nytimes.com Petrobras is planning thermo power plant inside a ship. Right on top of the gas field in Santos Basin. Lay cables to the coast and rake in the cash. No land required. No IBAMA authorization need, no infrastructure impact. The best solution is to Chinese build a nuclear power plant inside a ship, park. Hook the country to the power plant and rake in the cash. It is time to pay the price for two decades of Greenism, misguided environmentalism practices, losses and junk science and policies based on pseudo-science. Pay dearly in terms of costs. Before it was just sign a new law, out a stamp of greenism and the ignorant masses were happy. But reality has a nasty way to bite back. And it is biting painfully where it hurts mostly. In the pocket of the ignorant shallow knowledgeable OECD subject who fell for that green stuff in kindergarten. Reverse of the perverse greenism laws is most welcome. Lots of artificial innefficiencies thrown in the economy must be removed all at once.

To: Moominoid who wrote (35331)	6/1/2008 9:08:46 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219507

The Cornell Professor? The one who died 2007? Resource economist Duane Chapman dies at age 66 Duane Chapman, Cornell professor emeritus of environmental economics, died at his home in Newfield, N.Y., July 29, after a brief illness. He was an expert in electricity markets, world oil prices and security, renewable energy costs and policy, climate change and energy use. Chapman Born in Sioux City, Iowa, Chapman received his B.A. (1961) from Michigan State University and his M.S. (1967) and Ph.D. (1969) from the University of California-Berkeley. He retired from Cornell in 2006 after 36 years as a professor in the Department of Applied Economics and Management. The author of "Environmental Economics: Theory, Application and Policy" (1999) and "Energy Resources and Energy Corporations" (1983), Chapman published many scholarly journal articles and belonged to various professional societies, including the American Economics Association, International Association of Energy Economists, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and the International Society of Ecological Economics. He was a member of Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. Chapman also worked extensively in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Siberia, Russia and Iran. Underlying his work was his heartfelt belief that education at all levels about the real world is the best way to improve people's lives and the environment. Chapman is survived by his two daughters and their mother, Mary Chapman; his partner, Alice Brody, and her daughter, and extended family. Friends can call from 4 to 6 p.m. on Aug. 1 at Bangs Funeral Home in Ithaca and after calling hours at Chapman's home at 130 Jackson Hollow Road, Newfield. A memorial service will be announced at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations in Chapman's memory can be made to Munhu Inc., P.O. Box 1966, Coppell, TX 75019 (http://www.munhu.org), an organization that provides school fees for Zimbabwean AIDS orphans.