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...thing about sailing is that as much as you practice, as great as you are in one certain condition, some of it is out of your control,” junior skipper Teddy Himler said. “It wasn’t our wind today...
With a week of solid practices and a strong first day behind it, the Harvard sailing team seemed to have the wind at its back and a bid to Team Racing Nationals in front of it. But when the winds changed, so too did the Crimson’s prospects, as the team finished a disappointing seventh yesterday at the Fowle Trophy—the New England Team Racing Championships hosted by Salve Regina University...
...Crimson was right on track. But when the team hit the water yesterday, it couldn’t adapt to the increased wind, which reached between 20 and 25 knots...
Furthermore, nuclear energy is immeasurably cleaner than burning coal, oil, or natural gas; the carbon emissions from the entire nuclear-energy cycle about equal that of a wind or hydroelectric plant. Nuclear plants even emit less radioactivity than coal plants, since there are natural radioactive materials mixed in with the coal, which are vented into the air. The footprint of a nuclear plant is miniscule compared to the hundreds of windmills required to generate the electrical output of a single reactor. Nuclear plants also avoid the highly toxic chemicals used in solar-panel production, and again, a single reactor...
...careful combination of nuclear energy for so-called “base load” electricity, plus wind and solar for “peak” generation, would allow an infrastructure that combines nearly zero greenhouse emissions and zero limits on available energy. And if there is no environmental harm, then energy, in itself, is extraordinarily good. It is directly and very closely correlated with growth in gross domestic product, life expectancy, and quality-of-life measures. It is desirable and essential to human progress; it is what separates us from the Middle Ages...