RE: Greenpeace et al./Danes

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>]

>To the effect that providing lots of good energy is fundamentally a bad 

>idea because of the life-style it would allow us to follow.

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Something similar was said by a leading personality in Sweden about 20 years 

ago. He called it "addiction to electricity" - and that this indirectly 

destroys the environment.



Unfortunately I am afraid that this argument partly is true but this does 

not put nuclear power in some particularly bad light (since this about 

lifestyle is a sidetrack - please send any response to me directly). So much 

more can be destroyed by other means of producing electricity. Electricity 

has important unique features however that wisely can be used with high 

efficiency.



It is interesting to note that some left wing Danes now start arguing for 

nuclear power (ref. Jens Jørgen Madsen og Uffe Gardel, Venstre vil have 

dansk atomkraft, Berlingske Tidende, 25 May, 2001, page 1 and 8

http://www.berlingske.dk/artikel:aid=101617:fid=100024937 ). There are many 

more interesting articles to read at http://www.berlingske.dk/

(for those who read Swedish/Danish/Norwegian/ use the search function and 

type in the words "Venstre" and "atomkraft" ). Essentially some left wing 

politicians say that nuclear power is nothing to fear and ought to be on the 

political agenda. Some other Danish political party orientations also share 

this idea or are at least split on the issue. (35 % of the EU electricity is 

nuclear)



My personal reflections only,



Bjorn Cedervall    bcradsafers@hotmail.com

http://www.geocities.com/bjorn_cedervall/



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