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Re: News Advisory: Still Crazy After Oil These Years!
charliew@hal-pc.org (charliew) wrote:
>There is obviously no one technology that has only positive
>and no negative attributes to it. Technology in and of
>itself is neutral; politics is not. Hydrogen technology is
>probably the best solution for the current problems seen by
>environmentalists, but it will only provide a technical
>solution to those problems. If another country wants to
>exploit this technology for the production of nuclear
>weapons, there is probably nothing stopping them from doing
>this now, assuming they are willing to direct a lot of
>effort and resources to this end.
Of course, but I was responding to someone who thought that
facilitation of proliferation was a valid argument against nuclear
energy. I was merely showing that this shoe fits more than one foot.
Rejecting nuclear energy for its proliferation potential, while
accepting renewable hydrogen, would be hypocritical.
Paul
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