[mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] solar power for all our gadgets

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Tue Mar 17 21:17:15 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 17 March 2009 15:02:51 Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:26 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> > Jeff Walther wrote:
> >> And it didn't have to be this way, but misguided or just evil people
> >> flat out lied about nuclear power and scared the public.
> >
> > I think the stage for that was actually set pretty early by military
> > secrecy.  Accidents that affected employees and people downwind at
> > military nuclear facilities like Hanford and Rocky Flats were covered up,
> > and that bred a culture of mistrust.  When the government came along
> > later and asserted, quite correctly, that commercial nuclear power plants
> > were safe, they no longer had any credibility with the public.
>
> The public perception may also be affected by such names as "Three
> Mile Island", "Chernobyl", "Forsmark" (and there are others).

But names like "Bophal" certainly did not stem our appetite for chemical 
products, nor do names such as Katrina curb our desire for waterfront 
property.

Unfortunately, the name that is in most people's minds when it comes to 
nuclear power is "Hiroshima".

Stupid, but probably true.

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