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Article: Backtalk
- Article from:
- Mother Jones
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Foundation for National Progress Jul/Aug 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Amped Up
As a long-tenn energy-field professional, I was glad to see Mother Jones taking a more balanced view than that all can be solved with wind, solar, and conservation. How can we double electric usage and eliminate coal? Via an all-out nuclear power program. Nothing else can provide more than 700 gigawatts of capacity in the next 30 years. So, it is up to you and your readers: Demand a nuclear program or complain about global warming, oil profits, and fossil fools. Your choice.
GEORGE HAMILTON
Judith Lewis offers a good explication of nuclear power. However, her premise, that expanding nuclear infrastructure could be a potent force to avert the climate crisis, is false. Nuclear will ...
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