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Brad,

The nukes certainly aren't the answer to our problems. First of all, there  
is a highly depleted construction industry with little or no experience in  
building the things. There are only two company's that can mold the huge  
containment vessels and other parts. One is in China and the other in France I  
believe. Getting a nuke plant built within budget is another huge problem. As  far 
as I know it's never been done. Then there is the problem of what to do with  
the spent rods (I won't go there). France generates 80% of their energy from  
nukes and even they haven't figured out what to do with the stuff.
American ingenuity will hopefully solve the energy problem and leave the  
Arabs eating their oil and sand. There are many approached to the problem and  
I'm sure there isn't one sure fire one that will solve our energy needs.

Rummy

In a message dated 7/16/2008 5:20:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
flybrad at gmail.com writes:

Rummy,

Certainly a much better bet than lotto tickets. If the  idea didn't have
merit Boeing wouldn't be funding research on algae in New  Zealand (BTW, you
can't buy shares in that company because of US securities  laws protecting
you from yourself).  There will be some winners who  invent the most
efficient process (who knows-could be Valcent) and some  winners because of
economies of scale. If it works, builders of diesel  engines will be big
winners (you go Tennessee VW!)  I'm not usually  one for 'gubment' meddling
in markets but I've been pretty consistent over  the years of wanting to wean
ourselves off imported oil.  We could do  that by taxing carbon outputs which
would kill off ethanol (barely better  than crude oil) and would favor algae.
I still think global warming is a  crock but carbon is the key to everything,
ie, crude oil holds more carbon  density than any other fuel which is why my
airplane needs the stuff so  badly and makes crude so difficult to replace as
a transportation fuel. A  carbon tax would also make nukes a no-brainer over
coal-fired electricity.  And yes, that will be the political fight from hell
with the various  industries jockeying for position.  A solution is out there
somewhere  and the market will find it, in the meantime, we need more oil
wells to  keep the economy lubed and running until the next generation fuel
is  ready.

Someone is going to make some money, may as well be  you!

Brad

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