There is a similar situation with nuclear power. As Dr. Helen Caldicot has pointed out, a net loss of energy actually results from the operation of nuclear plants if you factor in the amount of energy consumed in the later decommisioning of the facility, and the transport and storage of nuclear waste products.
Sorry, my mistake. It's just that I so often read statements of opinion where I think at first "they must be joking", but they turn out to be in earnest.
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Same deal, but you live in Haiti.
There is a similar situation with nuclear power. As Dr. Helen Caldicot has pointed out, a net loss of energy actually results from the operation of nuclear plants if you factor in the amount of energy consumed in the later decommisioning of the facility, and the transport and storage of nuclear waste products.
Sorry, my mistake. It's just that I so often read statements of opinion where I think at first "they must be joking", but they turn out to be in earnest.
Will the war in Iraq take a time-out for a few weeks? The war isn't an abstraction that will just go away if we stop discussing it.