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What the ban on Yucca Mountain reminds us.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 5th, 2009 at 11:30 PM  | 

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I do like what Francis wrote, but I want to really drive it home to my people – which is to say, science fiction geeks. Let me strip this down for you. There was a quote that Jerry Pournelle likes to repeat, from one of the anti-nuclear power people: “The only physics I ever took was Ex-Lax.“ Remember that one? Remember how it made you laugh at the idiot?

Well, did you vote for Obama? – because if you did, you voted for the guy who takes people like that idiot seriously.

And, do you know something? I told you so.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • Adjoran

    then they shut down nuclear power, which is the true object of enviro-wackos.

    The prospect of living without electricity is charmingly romantic – right up to the moment you have to begin doing it.

  • Dan McLaughlin

    Luddites like Tim Noah are happy about this, of course.

  • GreyCloak

    Every consumer that uses nuclear-generated electricity … from New York to California, from Illinois to Texas … has been paying for Yucca Mountain for almost thirty years. There’s $19 billion left in the fund … Congress wants that money, and Harry Reid doesn’t want Yucca Mountain. Even though he’s probably happy that $12 billion has already been spent on it.

    Congress created he Nuclear Waste Disposal Fund … like Social Security Funds, they’ll spend it as fast as they can.

    Oh … incidentally … Nuclear power doesn’t contribute to global warming, and costs far less than half what any other power source provides.

  • Achance

    last year when an avalanche wiped out the line from the hydro plant and put us on diesel generated electricity. At $0.45 Kwh, you think very seriously about whether you want to turn on that light! All the outside lights went off. The hot tub got drained and winterized. Multi-light fixtures got cut to the minimum by removing bulbs. I put a clothes line in the garage and the dryer was NEVER used. We cooked with the microwave if at all possible. We watched the smallest TV. Nobody used a hair dryer – NOBODY. We lived that way for two months and it was a PITA. You can do it, but you damned sure don’t want to!

  • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

    I didn’t. Tennessee’s answer to cutting usage is raising the rates.

  • Raven

    I didn’t see a “Written by” line there, so I’m curious if Jerry Pournelle wrote it (there was some web address on the page that included his name).

    If he did, I may just have to buy a couple of his books and see if his fiction is as good as his essays…

  • mom2oneson

    It’s never romantic when hosptials are using the generator. :(

  • ehosterman

    A number have already sued the federal government over payments to the Nuclear Waste Disposal fund and won. Expect more suits and more payouts.