[Homestead] Climate-Gate

Lynda lurine at com-pair.net
Tue Dec 1 17:48:02 EST 2009


As an aside, do you know what France does with their nuclear waste?

Lynda
--"I'm fascinated by the hard line you're drawing over religion -- It gets
used too much, as an excuse, a fall guy, a weapon, a con.  A lot of people,
maybe most, don't mean it except when it suits them."  Dallas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian at wmconnect.com>
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>
> Likewise France is pointed out, they get all of their electricity from
> nuclear, right?  No, it's about 77%.  Their per capita electric use is 
> about
> half of ours.  But more significantly is the fact that France's nuclear 
> program
> came about in the 50's because of large amounts of domestic uranium to be
> had.  That uranium peaked in the 70's and now France imports nearly all 
> the
> uranium it uses for electric power generation.  If everyone in the world
> generated 77% of their electricity from nuclear power, the world's 
> reserves of
> unanium would be depleted in a few decades and would become prohibitively
> expensive long before that.




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