"Robert Miles" <robertmiles@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Michelle C" <bookbug_35@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> "Sleepyman" <don't@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 11:59:04 -0800, "Michelle C" <bookbug_35@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>I'm not against nuclear energy--but what do you think should be done
>>>>with
>>>>the waste? And no, Yucca Mountain is not the answer. I live @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>from the site, and no one wants it here. Would you?
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, I am a NIMBY when it comes to nuclear waste. I hope
that
>>> science
>>> will find an answer as to how to make it safe. With all this offshore
>>> drilling
>>> nonsense, they are talking about drilling in Stellwagon, and George's
>>> Bank off
>>> Cape Cod and the Gulf of Maine. That is where the eastern humpbacks
>>> congregate
>>> in the spring and summer and is a major fi****ng ground, though not as
>>> big as it
>>> used to be as the cod, and haddock,shellfish, lobsters and all the
>>> other
>>> groundfish have been fished to death. If you ever read Captains
>>> Courageous, it
>>> took place on George's Bank IIRC, and it's been a long time since I
read
>>> it......
>>>
>>>
>>> Sleepy
>>>
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>>>
>>> Back in 2000 a Republican friend warned me that if I voted for Al Gore
>>> and he won,
>>> the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our
>>> military would be
>>> totally overstretched. You know what? I did vote for Gore, he did win,
>>> and I'll be
>>> damned if all those things didn't come true!
>>>
>>> James Carville
>>
>> I'm not in favor of offshore drilling either for reasons like you
cited.
>> There was an interesting article in the local paper recently stating
that
>> if we took 100 square miles of NV desert--and believe me, there's a lot
>> of desert out there--filled the space with solar-thermal panels
>> (different from standard solar arrays in that these use solar energy to
>> heat water and generate steam for electricity), we could more than
power
>> the entire USA. This is what I think should be done. We have the
>> technology NOW. The biggest hurdle is finding the funds for the new
>> transmission lines.
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Michelle C., T2
> .
> And, from what I've read, finding ways to transmit the energy that far
> without losing too much of it. Transmission lines are not lossless.
>
> Robert
>
That's true--the technology could certainly use some improvement.
However,
even if we could just service the west coast at the beginning, it would be
heckuva improvement. (Sorry for the major typo in the previous message.)
--
Best regards,
Michelle C., T2
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