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- From: dpeders1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Pedersen)
- Subject: Re: Solar vs. Nuclear
- Message-ID: <2CKWB3KM@cc.swarthmore.edu>
- Sender: Daniel Pedersen - Keren's Daddy
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- Organization: Swarthmore College
- References: <1993Jan3.013947.25856@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <1993Jan3.232128.11928@inel.gov>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 06:12:43 GMT
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- The reason that there is no money in solar energy research and development
- is that the fossil fuel industry is highly subsidized by the government,
- since not all of the costs of using fossil fuels are incorporated into the
- price of "conventional power" technology. If the costs of the environmental
- impact of fossil fuels were incorporated, as well as incentives for finding
- alternate solutions when the fossil fuels run out, then it would be
- economically viable to invest in alternative energy sources.
-
- The current administration talks a lot about free market economics, but
- subsidizes fossil fuels, water use in California and farmers around the
- country without admitting it. It's just to damn cheap to use anything but
- fossil fuels.
-
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