We know that because we can prove definitively, using the best kind of math there is, fundie math, that
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/table27.xls"> 2660.26 < 684.38.
Quoth Amory back in 1980, when that 684.38 figure (which is smaller than 2660.26) was generated:
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.
Lovins, Asshole; Lovins, Hunter funny hat, and Ross, Leper,
Foreign Affairs, "Nuclear Power and Nuclear Bombs,"
Foreign Affairs, Summer 1980, page 1139.
As Lovins correctly pointed out, if nuclear power hadn't ended in 1980 from the "discipline of the marketplace" to which he, a regular Milton Friedman, alluded, there would have been lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of nuclear wars, killing more people than were killed in the dangerous fossil fuel war - which coincidently started in, um, 1980, between Iraq and Iran, the
small war in Iraq that killed
only a million people.
Very clearly Amory must lecture all those executives from Conoco, Royal Dutch Shell, etc when he sees them to pick up his check for um, "consulting" on why wars are, um, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad!!!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War">"Only" one million dead.
Still, I wonder why, since nuclear power is dead, why so many anti-nuke fundies, including Lovins need to rail and rail and rail and rail and rail against nuclear power, year after year after year after year after year after year, while telling us at the same time, year after year after year after year after year after year how solar energy is just about to become
competitive, proving once and for all that
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_3.html">10.05 =
35.61.
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