Nuclear Energy Interest Spreads Through Middle East

Posted on Monday, April 16 at 15:33 by RPW
The solutions to both can be found in nuclear energy at present. For the former, a local nuclear war will reduce the population, not to mention make the region unlivable. Or it can be used to distill water from the Mediterranean, and/or the Red Sea. In addition, there are plans afoot to build canals from either/or the Read Sea and the Mediterranean Sea to the Dead Sea, which is disappearing, a la the Aral Sea in Russia http://tinyurl.com/5os8m The original plans called for the generation of electricity as the water from either source drops into the depression occupied by the Dead Sea. But the changing realities are beginning to place more empahsis on desalination on a massive scale. This calls for equally massive energy sources - sources that can only be met today by nuclear energy. Considering that Dick Cheney wants to build some 400 nuc-u-lar reactors in the US, it shouldn't come as a surprise that other countries would like to follow in their own ways.

Note: http://tinyurl.com/yo35ud http://tinyurl.com/5os8m

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  1. Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:10 pm
    It will be impossible to dispose of nuclear waste. A lot of talking and PR will result in Nuclear power being used but disposal of the waste will be ignored. Every excuse conceivable has been, will be and always will be made, for the need of nuclear power. Perhaps that is why people can walk on hot coals without pain. The convincing can be made. The end result will be far more deplorable then the use of fossil fuels. Another easy way out for the benefit of none.

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  2. by RPW
    Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:41 am
    Absolutely true, in spite of nuc-u-lar power's redesignation as "green" (unless perhaps the "green" is an abbreviation of greenbacks). I hope I didn't come off as a proponent of nuc-u-lar power. I am not. But then, I have thought since the 60's that oil should never be used as an energy source either - it is much too valuable to be simply burned.

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  3. Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:09 pm
    Supposidly by this time, we were to be out of oil. It's apparant no plan was made to replace it. We had gone through this redress before in the eighties. The same stance with the same approach.

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