Jerry Avins wrote:
> Carlos Moreno wrote:
>
>> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>>
>>> The most important technology breakthrough in next couple
>>> of decades will be cheap clean energy.
>>
>> We've had that for the last half-a-century (well, maybe
>> just a quarter-of-a-century?). It's called nuclear
>> energy. According to all specialists I've known, it's
>> by far the most environmental-friendly form of energy...
>> (yes, they agree that the irony is kind of thick, but
>> when you think about it, they're right -- they're very
>> very right).
>
> Where do you propose to put the ashes?

Well, the trick is that for every trillion of terawatts
that you generate with nuclear energy, you generate less
ashes than when generating a gigawatt by burning petroleum,
or equivalently, cause less damage to the environment than
hydro-electric energy (which BTW is too limited anyway --
it's not accessible everywhere, as thermo-electric
potentially is, and nuclear could be)

(the numbers above are most likely a gross exaggeration,
of course -- I'm using them just to illustrate the idea)


BTW, given that we're already off-topic for comp.dsp (:-)),
I'll take the opportunity to ask you how's Isabelle doing?
You haven't mentioned anything (well, or I haven't been
reading the newsgroup enough and missed it, if you did),
so I'm hoping that no news in this case is good news?

Cheers,

Carlos
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