tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post113500564954059257..comments2024-03-07T02:00:01.582-05:00Comments on NEI Nuclear Notes: Google's Future Electric BillUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-1135084297216113022005-12-20T08:11:00.000-05:002005-12-20T08:11:00.000-05:00I think it is a good thing NEI, quite an authorati...I think it is a good thing NEI, quite an authorative organization, doesn't recoil from linking to webpages discussing the woefully underreported peak oil issue.<BR/><BR/>While nuclear power can't do much directly to mitigate peak oil (since oil isn't used much to make electricity, except on islands and in Italy), nuclear power could help indirectly.<BR/><BR/>Examples of this indirect mitigation is reducing the need for oil heat (either through heat pumps, direct electrical heating, or coolest of all, nuclear co-generation for district heating), by replacing oil for industrial heat, to reduce oil use by tranportation through electric mass transit (subways, trams, trains à la TGV) or even electrical or (the unlikely) hydrogen cars.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com