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Post by epaul on Mar 5, 2009 15:45:41 GMT -5
Did you read your link? (you couldn't have or you wouldn't have bothered posting it) All it did was list every military accident of any type from any country that in some way or other involved a vehicle of some type that was associated in some way with something nuclear. What does this link have to do with the safety record of the nuclear reactors used by the Navy? Or the health records of the sailors who operate the equipment? (an Algerian bomber crashing into a camel while attempting a landing doesn't count against the Navy or its reactors) The United States Navy has a remarkable record with nuclear-powered ships and subs, remarkable for safety. |
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Post by omaha on Mar 5, 2009 15:48:16 GMT -5
...and they do it while being shot at, which is pretty cool when you think about it.
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Post by TDR on Mar 5, 2009 15:49:52 GMT -5
TDR Aqua Um, what if they're right? They aren't. We know this, how? |
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Post by aquaduct on Mar 5, 2009 15:52:32 GMT -5
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Post by TDR on Mar 5, 2009 16:05:05 GMT -5
Waitamint. You are asserting you know they're wrong because you don't know they're right?
Forget the cap and trade part for a minute. The curent trend is A) The oil will run out. Meanwhile it gets more expensive and is wrapped up in sticky geopolitical messes. Its also polluting. B) We have lots of coal, but its dirty. And eventually it runs out too. By which time we're buried in soot and we all have cancer. And the atmosphere is screwed.
And C) There is more energy than we need, clean and endless from sustainable sources. So why the heck wouldn't we go for clean and inexhaustable over dirty and finite?
Some of the tech is already there, now. Some of it needs development. Once upon a time electricity and roads needed development too. We did that, we can do what comes next.
I can't advocate for cap and trade. I don't know enough about the fine points. I don't know anyone who does. I guess if it turns out not to be effective at the intended purpose, they'll modify it or scrap it. I see it as a blip on the way to incenting the changes that need to be made.
Let us know how you corporate types see it, some of us wonder.
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Post by billhammond on Mar 5, 2009 16:06:13 GMT -5
NOT John Denver.
Thank God.
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Post by TDR on Mar 5, 2009 16:07:01 GMT -5
John Lennon
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Post by billhammond on Mar 5, 2009 16:08:49 GMT -5
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Post by TDR on Mar 5, 2009 16:12:59 GMT -5
Oh wait. That's more a Ringo type chord progression.
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