Norm's Sunday sermon: 1 email; easy deleting; no carpal tunnel jokes.

[Norman Cohen <ncohen12@HOME.COM>]

Norman Cohen wrote:



> Hi all,

> Here's some replies to various emails posted on radsafe this week:

>

> To Tony DeAngelo - Thanks for posting the additional URLs on Markey's

> letter and bill. If I had posted it, I'd have gotten  flamed for

> posting anti-nuke propaganda. You seem to be flame-proof. ;-)

>

> To Bjorn and all of you who got email with the badtrans virus: I was

> amazed - no one blamed me or claimed it was an anti-nuke plot! Things

> are indeed improving on radsafe.

>

> To Bob Flood: (replying to my reply and the UCS report) I do not

> believe that Americans will lose jobs if we

>  find ways of using lesss electicity. Indeed, ne jobs are bound to be

> created by increasing the use of alternatives and conservation. As

> I've stated before, energy policy is a matter of national will and

> corporate greed.  As we phase out nuclear power and the dirtiest coal,

> this phase out itself will force new energy on line.

>

> To Don Kosloff: (replying about coal and nukes): You are still setting

> up the dichotomy between coal and nukes

>   as this country's only energy choicee. I continue to agree that coal

> is polluting and dirty. But I will also continue to maintain that thsi

> country can take a different path, one that relies more and more on

> alternatives, conservation, and efficiency. Until we look out side the

> box, we're stuck inside the box. I understand that you'll point out

> that my answer is a political one and not a scientific one, but then

> again, you all agree I'm no scientist.

> If one has only bad choices, look for some other choice, or find a

> different paradigm.

>

> To Jim Dukelow: The uranium tailings I was thinking about are the ones

> at Moab. I do not have any specific studies handy that show specific

> effects from tailings leaching into the Colorado River. I'm glad to

> see that you say I'm right about uranium miners. Glad to be right

> about something! As far as the Hanford study, my recollection is that

> the Hanford activists felt that the study was flawed. Don't have the

> citations handy. As far as the TFP, we batted that about ad nauseum

> last year. I stick with my basic premises: TFP is a preliminary study;

> something is hapening at least at Salem and Oyster Creek that show



To: JG Patterson (Norm is anti-nuke all the way): I hope I've never

implied to this list that I'm not anti-nuke. What I've said is that I am

in favor of nuclear medicine, and xrays, catscans, etc. I'd be dead with

out them.

I'm Ok with nuclear powered space craft as long as they are launched in

such a way (like from the space station) that there is no chance of

their falling back to earth. I'm for continued research into all nuclear

power aspects (I'm am NOT anti-science). And I've siad that my focus is

on the 4 NJ reactors.

   I didn't post the Greenpeace item to radsafe because all that would

have done is piss off lots of folks.---



To Stewart Farber (New Zealand pro nuke article): At least you called me

a "gadfly" and not something worse.

   I'm going to defer answering right now until I find the time to

answer in detail. I do have a question: I know that New Zealand is a

"Nuclear Free Zone". That was voted on by NZ back during the Nuclear

Freeze days in the 80s. How would nuke power affect that decision by NZ?



To Bill Prestwich (windmills are auditory and visual pollution): I too

would not want to degrade any baeutiful English countryside vista. My

understanding is that windpower would be off-shore, perhaps Scotland.

---



> To: Jaro (continuing discussion over jet engine penetration): Scott

> Portzline chooses to not engage in debate over this via me. He does

> challenge you, or any other radsafer to appear on radio and debate the

> issue.



  Anyone interested, I'll send you scott's email addy and you can duke

it out between yourselves.



To: Franz: I understand that the moderator asked you to tone it down a

bit. I of course apologize if my carpal tunnel comment was taken

personally. I don't wish bad things on anyone (except perhaps Osama). I

would note tho', that carpal tunnel was mentioned first by a radsafer

before I mentioned it. -------



To: My extremely distant cousin Jerry Cohen: I agree that politics plays

a major role in the Yucca decision.

      I'm not sure I'd support dumping the stuff in the ocean. When

asked last year what my solution would be, I suggested waiting until we

had the techology necessary to safely rocket the waste into the sun via

an equator

elevator system which would lift the waste into orbit, and then oone

could send it into the sun. (picked this idea up from an article years

ago in Analog magazine).



To: folks discussing Ray's Shadis's article. I've forwrd your comments

to him. as far as I know he is no longer on this list, so whether he

repleis or not is up to him.



>

> To the folks who say to just ignore my postings - I say, go for it,

> whatever lessens email traffic is good for radsafe.

>



> Have a great week everyone. Go on out and buy those holiday gifts to

> get our economy moving!



Peace

Norm





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