[ RadSafe ] Obama announces loan guarantees for two nuclear reactors

[edmond0033 at comcast.net]

I may believe it when they first break ground.  Only then I will belive when it goes on line.  Remember Shorehum!!!  



Ed Baratta 



edmond0033 at comcast.net 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Brennan (DOH)" <Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV> 
To: radsafe at radlab.nl 
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 5:13:47 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Obama announces loan guarantees for two nuclear reactors 

Hi, Maury.   

You are overlooking that in an urban, industrial society, energy in 
general and electricity in particular fails to meet any of the three 
criteria necessary for a free market to exist (the barriers to entry as 
a supplier must be low, all parties must have enough information and 
understanding to make informed choices, and society must be willing to 
accept the consequences of a sizable portion of the population doing 
without the goods or services in question).  Barring technological 
breakthroughs (and likely even then) energy markets will always be 
manipulated; the only question is by who and for what purpose.   

Energy works better as infrastructure than as an unregulated profit 
generator. 

-----Original Message----- 
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On 
Behalf Of Maury Siskel 
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:15 PM 
To: Doug Aitken 
Cc: 'Doug Huffman'; 'Perle,Sandy'; radsafe at radlab.nl 
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Obama announces loan guarantees fortwo nuclear 
reactors 

Hi Doug, various forms of competition and risk seem inherent while 
others seem to me to be more contrived or artificial. Markets usually 
cope well with the givens -- the contrived sorts require equally 
artificial coping mechanisms which afford great opportunities for 
threading loopholes and for providing loopholes in two thousand page 
laws. Note how difficult and time consuming it has been to deal with a 
four-page US Constitution. We "successfully" circumvent more and more of 

the four pager, but it has not been speedy or easy.  <g> 
Best, 
Maury&Dog  [MaurySiskel  maurysis at peoplepc.com] 

=================== 

Doug Aitken wrote: 

>Can we add the coal lobby to the list of "hand in glove", please..... 
>;~) 
>Doug 
> 
>___________________________________ 
>Doug Aitken 
>QHSE Advisor 
>D&M Operations Support 
>jdaitken at sugar-land.oilfield.slb.com 
>Mail: c/o Therese Wigzell, 
>Schlumberger, 
>Drilling & Measurements HQ, 
>300 Schlumberger Drive, MD15, 
>Sugar Land, Texas 77478 
> 
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On 
Behalf 
>Of Maury Siskel 
>Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:50 PM 
>To: Perle, Sandy 
>Cc: 'Doug Huffman'; 'radsafe at radlab.nl' 
>Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Obama announces loan guarantees for two 
nuclear 
>reactors 
> 
>The Administration continues to append rainbow-like conditions; e.g., 
"Any new nuclear facilities, he promised, will be held to the highest 
and strictest 
> 
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