Re: Way OT: free CFL bulbs (fwd)

Dave you should have gone to the Helen Caldicott propaganda session. You
could have argued why are crap lignite coal is a bad thing
she prefers us yokels having a nuclear power station.

another funny thing remember when MRI=NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Nuclear is the "N" word

Dave Hall wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:09:19AM -0600, Scott Walde wrote:
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>>Steven Kurylo wrote:
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>>>I found this article pertinent:
>>>http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2007/03/22/toronto-hydro-conservation.html
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>>Pertinent, perhaps, but the article doesn't make any sense. "We need to
>>raise prices because you're using less, but if you use more, we'll have
>>to raise prices even more." It would make more sense if they simply
>>said something like "we need to raise prices to repair/replace aging
>>infrastructure." Isn't that what they're really saying? Conservation
>>is simply delaying it a little.
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>>>Maybe Saskpower will be next.
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>>If Saskpower had any brains and less political interference from Mr.
>>Prebble (who still owes me $20 -- no I don't want to collect it, I want
>>to hold it over his head forever) they would build a nuclear reactor at
>>La Loche, and string some lines over to Fort Mc. I've been saying that
>>for years, and it seems recently that a former SK NDP, who now works for
>>a large oil firm in AB agrees.
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>Totally. We ship a boat load of uranium ore out of the province with all
>the safety concerns around it, yet we could process it and convert it to
>electrical energy close to where it exists and dump the waste back in the
>ground where it came from. From an environmental footprint perspective,
>that'd be a lot closer to neutral than other energy sources like clean
>coal, gas or hydro.
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>Geographically, we're positioned such that we could have legs in both the
>East and West North American power grids so it can be traded like other
>electrical energy and sold to the highest bidder.
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>Too bad the fear mongers are more successful spreading FUD than simple
>logic with respect to radioactive material and radio active waste.
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Received on Wed Mar 28 11:19:51 2007