From: parrish@ecn.purdue.edu (Stephen L. Parrish)
Subject: Re: IGNORANCE is BLISS - But EDUCATION is SEXIST
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 01:06:53 GMT

In article <1992Dec13.010534.7240@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, parrish@ecn.purdue.edu (Stephen L. Parrish) writes:
|> In article <1992Dec12.233303.16224@news.nd.edu>, gsmith@aldarion.next.nd.edu (george smith) writes:
|> |> In article <1992Dec11.150647.21351@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>  
|> |> dyrda@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Richard Dyrda) writes:
|> |> > >In article <1992Dec11.112049.11697@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>  
|> |> constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino) writes:
|> |> 
|> |> > >3. Greenpeace and its eco-cohorts have invented global warming as an
|> |> > >impending disaster about to happen. What are their solutions? If they 
|> |> > >were scientifically educated instead of brainwashed, they could find
|> |> > >out (research--gasp!) how much CO2 a fossil plant coughs up every day.
|> |> > 
|> |> >  Well.....since this has been a COLD winter they're now saying a new ice
|> |> > age is coming upon us! Seems to me eco-scientists don't really know much
|> |> > about either.
|> |> > 
|> |> 
|> |> "Invented" global warming?  Have you done any reading on the subject at  
|> |> all?  I have only done a little and what I've seen is that there has been  
|> |> an enormous amount of research done on the subject. A lot of it suggests  
|> |> that we may be undergoing a long term climate change due to the increased  
|> |> emissions of anthropogenically produced "greenhouse gases."  Of course,  
|> |> not all researchers agree (researchers hardly ever do).  
|> |> 	As far as nuke plants v. fossil fuel plants go, neither of them is  
|> |> ideal.  With fossil fuels you have to worry about all sorts of air  
|> |> pollution, where to mine it, what you'll do when it runs out, etc.  With  
|> |> nuclear plants, you have to worry about them blowing up and where you're  
|> |> going to put the radioactive waste.  Personally I would choose neither and  
|> |> spend more money (that Reagan removed from the budget) on renewable energy  
|> |> technologies.  Not only is it clean, but it has the potential of being  
|> |> marketable and exportable, if the Germans and the Japanese don't beat us  
|> |> to it. If I had to choose a lesser evil for the short term, I would choose  
|> |> nuclear power for its reductions in air pollution.
|> |> 	
|> |> peace and trees,
|> |> 
|> |> george
|> 
|> Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!  
|> 
|> |> ...pollution, where to mine it, what you'll do when it runs out, etc.  With  
|> |> nuclear plants, you have to worry about them blowing up and where you're  
|> |> going to put the radioactive waste.
|> 
|> Blowing up? George?  Nuclear Plants blowing up?  Please, you've utterly 
|> destroyed credibility with this reply by revealing your ignorance of nuclear
|> power.  Nuclear Power plants do not blow up.  If you could, could you describe
|> the process by which a power plant will "blow up".  With more time, I'm sure
|> I can muster up a reply which will thoroughly reveal the ludicrous nature of this
|> statement, if I'm not beaten to it by someone else (it is finals time here).
|> 
|> As to the Japanese beating us to renewable energy resources, they are.  They are
|> building our Nuclear Power Plant designs (specifically the GE Advanced Boiling
|> Water Reactor), they are actively pursuing Fast Breeder Reactor technology, and
|> they are incorporating reprocessing into their Nuclear Fuel cycle-- so yes,
|> they are ahead of us in utilizing renewable sources of energy.  With plants
|> being built and on-line in ~5 years, they are, yet again, revealing American 
|> ineptness.
|> 
|> Your choice in the short term is good, in the long term advanced reactor designs
|> based on ANL's IFR technology and, hopefully, GA's MHTGR will be able to 
|> provide _safe_, _clean_, and _abundant_ base load energy well into the future--
|> augmented by a more distributed network of other renewable energy sources.
|> -- 
|> Stephen Parrish              |          Will Do Core Design for Food 
|> Purdue University            |       
|> School of Nuclear Engineering|          
|> parrish@gn.ecn.purdue.edu    |  KEMP/Powell '96   (If the US survives '92-96)

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