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Subject:	Re: Global Warming (was: Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Wed, 10 May 2000 20:40:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher Tracey writes: > there are some other good reasons to give up on carbon based fuels... Reason number one being that burning hydrocarbons is a huge waste of precious chemical feedstocks... the stocks used to make ABS, for example. Every mile you drive is a brick not made, or something like that. :-) ...and number two being that hydrocarbons are so dirty in other ways. I say, lets use (comparably) clean technologies like nuclear fission(1) for now, and fusion and space based solar power ASAP, wherever we can. ++Lar 1 - debate bait. Who'll take it. Fission IS cleaner than, say, coal.

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		Re: Global Warming (was: Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?)
(...) I won't bite, cause I agree... I also seem to recall (though I have no proof, someone?) that it's LESS radioactive than coal! :P how's that for bait? Dan (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Global Warming (was: Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?)
Heck yeah fission is cleaner. We always seem to be worried about what to do with the spent rods - why not drop them into the sun? It's not like it's going to pollute the sun or anything, and the canisters wouldn't need much of a boost at all. I was (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Global Warming (was: Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?)
(...) well, i didn't do the math but some other researchers have: (URL) maximum sea-level rise from the complete melting of these bodies of ice would be about 264 feet- that's about flooding times 13 by your definition above. There has be a lot of (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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