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From: eli@bbn.com (Steve Elias)
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Subject: Re: Nuclear power as a net energy consumer ?!?
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Date: 24 Mar 88 16:37:11 GMT
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In article <238@mruxd.UUCP> lag@mruxd.UUCP ( L Clifford) writes:

!! 	if nuclear energy were an "energy consumer" (it's not), it 
!! 	would be a superb solution to thermal runaway!  we could
!! 	just build lots of reactors -- they would be net energy consumers
!! 	and chill out the planet.
!
!Quite so.  I should have said, "net useful energy consumer", "useful"
!referring to electricity and to the other forms of energy useful,

	well.  thanks for your arguments on why nuclear power could
	be a net waste of energy.  i apologize that my literacy level
	isn't up to your standards, Larry.  i don't apologize for my
	minimal use of upper case letters though.   

!but e.e. cummings here would rather waste time by pointing 
!out (with devastating insight) that fissioning
!U235 and its cousins is an exothermic process.  

	get lost with the ee cummings bullshit.  i type in lower case
	because my left shift finger is mangled.  so fuck off.