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[NNadir]

You're very, very, very, very, very, very big on stating that "nuclear power is dead."

I think your cult has been saying as much for 37 years.

From the Pope of anti-nukes:

Our thesis rests on a different perception. Our attempt to rethink focuses not on marginal reforms but on basic assumptions. In fact, the global nuclear power enterprise is rapidly disappearing. De facto moratoria on reactor ordering exist today in the United States, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Ireland, and probably the United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan and Canada. Nuclear power has been indefinitely deferred or abandoned in Austria, Denmark, Norway, Iran, China, Australia and New Zealand. Nuclear power elsewhere is in grave difficulties. Only in centrally planned economies, notably France and the U.S.S.R., is bureaucratic power sufficient to override, if not overcome, economic facts.

Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins, Leonard Ross "Nuclear Power and Nuclear Bombs," Foreign Affairs, pg 1138, Summer, 1980.

Hallucinate much, Amory?

I have heard fundementalist anti-nukes saying here that "nuclear power is dead" for quite sometime, but my impression is that they've been eating home grown hallucinogenic mushrooms with Mom at the family compound.

Meanwhile on planet earth: http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/table27.xls

No amount of scientific fact, no number of numbers, no measurement can dissuade a fundie from being a fundie.

In fact, the anti-nuke fundies, isolated in their little yuppie brat car culture enclaves seem to be shuffling a little bit.

The whole anti-nuke cult is looking more and more and more and more hallucinatory.

Later on we'll talk about how the two authors of the cult scripture, Hunter and Amory, got married in a sweat lodge, exchanging knives in a little cult ritual.

It's a great story, and pretty illustrative of the nature of cult thinking.