NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Nuclear Power, The Rebound, Stone Age
20 Jun 2013
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Nuclear power 3: energy, accidents, & the governance for. They are projected up to some arbitrary round-numbered date. Whatever technologies are automatically accepted, along with their social implications, and no though is given to how long the system can last once the projected levels are attained". If we choose the hard path we"ll end up with lots of coal and gas, but if we choose the soft path we"ll have lots of coal. But whatever path we choose, that"s the path we"ll have. Flexible, resilient, sustainable, benign: renewable (sustainable is best, diverse (probably decentralized, flexible (low-tech, scale and geographic distribution matched to end use needs, energy quality" matched to end-use needs. Maximize supply by squeezing all domestic resources. Centralized, bypasses the market, concentrated political power, urbanization, huge and high-tech. Projection of how much people will consume, so it looks like what people need (supply issue) We have not had a massive increase in consumption.
