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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 06:10 PM Original message |
What size nuclear disaster will convince us to ban nukes? |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 06:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. you'll never convince the pro-nuke fanatics on DU. |
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Kennah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 06:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I wasn't previously a pro-nuke fanatic, but this one does it for me |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 06:17 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Pro-nuker and pro-gunner atheist checking in. |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 06:52 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Except his statistics are wrong. nt |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 08:56 PM Response to Reply #11 |
25. SO because you SAY so, they are wrong? |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-15-11 02:40 AM Response to Reply #25 |
35. No, they're wrong because they're wrong. |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-16-11 04:21 PM Response to Reply #35 |
42. Ahh, so because YOU say so... I get it now. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 09:27 PM Response to Reply #5 |
30. i hope you enjoy that little fantasy world you're living in |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 06:17 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. You got that right |
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InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
2. I've been wondering just that myself. |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
4. I think you may be looking out the wrong end of the telescope. |
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Tikki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
7. Follow the money trail....When General Electric and their ilk |
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DefenseLawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 08:48 PM Response to Reply #7 |
21. How are they going to lose money? |
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Tikki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 09:14 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. When design, maintenance and contracting errors lead to |
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movonne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
8. This is just one more thing the corporations are doing to destroy |
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Zax2me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
9. Ask Obama |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
10. I'm convinced nothing will. |
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Teaser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
12. nothing |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 08:08 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Wind alone can do it. And we have many more options. |
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Teaser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 08:25 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. wind is not ready to scale or deploy yet |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
15. For some here, Nuclear power is a Sacred Cow. Untouchable and holy. |
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catenary (132 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 08:31 PM Response to Original message |
16. A massive resurgence of neo-Luddites. |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 09:26 PM Response to Reply #16 |
29. Cute. |
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LiberalAndProud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
17. Us? |
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DefenseLawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
18. Have you SEEN the amount of public money that gets poured into corporate pockets to build them? |
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LiberalAndProud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 08:46 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I am certain I have never seen that amount of money in my life. |
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killbotfactory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 08:47 PM Response to Original message |
20. What size of an oil disaster will convince us to ban oil? |
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Fuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
22. One that makes the rich, connected, powerful or elected sick or dead. |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
23. I doubt nuclear power will ever be banned... just more regs and restrictions.. |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
24. "When" will be when other forms of renewable power become affordable on sufficient scale. |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 09:25 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. The fact is: "In 2008, renewable energy supplied around 19% of the world's energy consumption." |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-15-11 02:53 AM Response to Reply #28 |
37. The vast majority of that was hydroelectricity: |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 09:31 PM Response to Reply #24 |
31. Depends on what you assume "sufficient" is |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-15-11 07:54 AM Response to Reply #31 |
38. "Sufficient" is significantly more than the world currently uses. |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-15-11 11:02 AM Response to Reply #38 |
40. I hope you like surprises, then |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 09:05 PM Response to Original message |
26. Did these oil disasters stop us from using oil? |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 09:51 PM Response to Reply #26 |
34. Interesting take |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
32. Seriously, those of us who are in the shadow of |
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unkachuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
33. I'm convinced already.... |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-15-11 02:48 AM Response to Original message |
36. nuclear energy is a perfect source of power--for the rich |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-15-11 07:56 AM Response to Original message |
39. For some nuclear support is a religious zeal that cannot be approached with reason. |
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yawnmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-15-11 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
41. only when a reactor blows up the world. eom |
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