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...economics. Lovins, an environmentalist who is unusually comfortable with numbers, argues in a report released last week that a massive new push for nuclear power doesn't make dollars or cents. In his study, titled "The Nuclear Illusion," he points out that while the red-hot renewable industry - including wind and solar - last year attracted $71 billion in private investment, the nuclear industry attracted nothing. "Wall Street has spoken - nuclear power isn't worth it," he says...
...mention the huge liability risk of an accident - the insurance industry won't cover a nuclear plant, so it's up to government to do so. Conservatives like Republican presidential candidate John McCain tend to promote nuclear power because they don't think carbon-free alternatives like wind or solar could be scaled up sufficiently to meet rising power demand, but McCain's idea of a crash construction program to build hundreds of new nuclear plants in near future seems just as unrealistic...
...nuclear, then which carbon-free energy source will power our post-climate change future? Lovins favors a diverse mix of renewables, integrated to compensate for individual faults - solar for when the wind doesn't blow, and vice versa. He also wants to focus on energy efficiency and micropower, shifting away from the old model of the massive central plant sending out electricity - i.e., your local nuke - in favor of smaller plants, even residence-scale ones, built close to population centers. Reducing carbon emissions, he argues, will be cheaper and safer if we turn away from nuclear in favor of alternatives...
...hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.” In his health care speech in 1978, I heard him excite even the Carter supporters in the room when he attacked the President’s caution: “Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot afford to drift or lie at anchor. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail...
...defense made some nice plays behind her. After Harvard eked out a 2-1 lead in the top of the seventh, Madick had the Pride down to its final strike in the bottom half. A dramatic home run forced extra innings and a third solo homer into the wind tunnel down the left-field line gave Hofstra the win—and Madick the loss—in the ninth.Perhaps no one but Madick will ever know how much the leg bruise affected her in the latter stages of that NCAA game. Only a few people witnessed the pitcher limp...