NATS 1760 Chapter Notes -David Brower, Nuclear Fission, Technocracy
20 Jun 2013
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Excerpts from soft energy paths; towards a durable peace (pg. 1. 1 technology is the answer! (but what was the question?) There is no such thing as enough; energy use is either desirable or inevitable. Politically; it is unworkable- most people are on the receiving end of the operations, they treat enterprises with a lack of enthusiasm because they directly perceive the prohibitive social and environmental costs. Extrapolative policy seems technically unworkable; richest and most sophisticated countries lack the skills, industrial capacity and managerial ability to sustain such rapid expansions of untried and unforgiving technologies. Economically unworkable; free market mechanisms unwilling to allocate to the extremely capital-intensive, high risk supply technologies the money needed to build them. U. s. national research council conaes study states. Sustaining growth in energy consumption, and of minimizing oil imports. Proposed solution is rapid expansions of three sectors: coal, oil and gas, and nuclear fission.
