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To: RetiredNow who wrote (3002)	11/4/2008 9:46:01 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 86355

I tend to agree. But it's my understanding that with the latest technology in nuke plants you can reprocess the waste down to a small fraction of what it used to be. And I don't think renewable works everywhere. I still would like to see an analysis of the cost of the concentrated nuke model... with all the plant and distribution infrastructure costs, vs. a subsidized distributed solar/wind model. I think in a lot of areas of the country the distributed model would win. Of course you don't have a huge, semi-government power industry to lobby for distributed power. You would think the conservative/libertarian movement would get behind the distributed model... get the utilities off their backs. Seems like a perfect fit for them.