Re: America's future energy source?

[m.williamson@mailbox.uq.edu.au (Michael Williamson)]

Eric Denison wrote

>All that CO2 should be metabolized by plants, which have done a superb job of
>cleaning it up thus far.  After all, there haven't been substantial changes
>in the atmospheric composition tables lately, have there?  This assumes, of
>course, that we can get people to stop burning down the forests...
>

I'm afraid there _has_ been a substantial change in the CO2 content of the
atmosphere.  Go and have a look at:

http://www.meto.umd.edu/~owen/CHPI/IMAGES/co2-tmp2.html as an example of
what has happened to the CO2 levels since industrialisation.

For many radsafers I'm sure this will be a clear pointer to the future role
of nuclear power generation.




Michael Williamson
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