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  1. Newsgroups: sci.environment
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost!jmc
  3. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  4. Subject: Re: Electricity Efficiency
  5. In-Reply-To: foy@aero.org's message of Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:45:36 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <JMC.92Jul28135525@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  7. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  8. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  9. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  10. References: <1992Jul27.151824.7138@vexcel.com> <STEINLY.92Jul27163017@topaz.ucsc.edu>
  11.     <JMC.92Jul27170433@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <1992Jul28.164536.5134@aero.org>
  12. Distribution: usa
  13. Date: 28 Jul 92 13:55:25
  14. Lines: 24
  15.  
  16. In article <1992Jul28.164536.5134@aero.org> foy@aero.org (Richard Foy) writes:
  17.  
  18.    In article <JMC.92Jul27170433@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
  19.    #In 1979 there was a conference on what might be done in a possible
  20.    #energy emergency, and the representative of Westinghouse said that
  21.    #nuclear plants could be built in two years without wartime priorities
  22.    #but also without regulatory delays.
  23.    #
  24.  
  25.    And they of course are totally unbiased and accurate in their statement.:)
  26.  
  27.    #--
  28.    #John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
  29.  
  30.    Richard Foy           Standard Disclaimer
  31.  
  32. Maybe they weren't unbiased, but they *were* the people who would
  33. have had to sign the contracts to build plants on a specified
  34. schedule.
  35. --
  36. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
  37. *
  38. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
  39.  
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