tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post4800279263122150895..comments2024-03-07T02:00:01.582-05:00Comments on NEI Nuclear Notes: Nuclear Energy and Loan Guarantees, Part IUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-32009358447185726912007-10-25T12:14:00.000-04:002007-10-25T12:14:00.000-04:00"The antinuke rock musician group is FOR only one ..."The antinuke rock musician group is FOR only one thing....their own careers.<BR/><BR/>Note well that their supposed "cultural protest" is couched in a purchasable music album."<BR/><BR/>Does anyone edit these comments for accuracy? <BR/><BR/>Far as I know, there is NOT an album onsale. There is a FREE music video on their web site. That's it. There was NO mention of an album at Tuesday's press conference, and you'd think they'd have mentioned it if there were one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-55868371822807575292007-10-25T09:54:00.000-04:002007-10-25T09:54:00.000-04:00The antinuke rock musician group is FOR only one t...The antinuke rock musician group is FOR only one thing....their own careers.<BR/><BR/>Note well that their supposed "cultural protest" is couched in a purchasable music album.<BR/><BR/>Since their days of being celebrities in their own right, the music industry has moved on, and moved so far on its road toward pure kinetic (Rap & beyond) performance art, that any offerings from these aged hippies is dull fare indeed, not exciting, devoid of sexuality, passe' to the max, and of no interest to the general music-buying public.<BR/><BR/>So how does a 60+ year old supposed rock icon cope? EASY! Get a "cause".<BR/><BR/>Save women & children in Darfur?... Nope.<BR/><BR/>Save HIV victims in South Africa?.... Nope.<BR/><BR/>Adopt third world babies, like Madonna & Angelina Jolie?....Nope.<BR/><BR/>Open healing clinics like Mother Teresa?..... Nope.<BR/><BR/>Make pilgimage to Mecca to protest Islamic terror acts?..... Nope.<BR/><BR/>Join with all to end global warming?.... (strangely) Nope!<BR/><BR/>No, you see, they have long, long ago been fed a pre-cooked agenda, with which they are already "branded". They are pre-advertised as being "Anti-Nuke".<BR/><BR/>So what, that their information was hogwash thirty years ago when they first got recruited, ITS A KNOWN BRANDING, AND ONCE BRANDED, CELEBS MUST STAY BRANDED.(Just ask their respective publicists).<BR/><BR/>The problem for these people is that they were controlled, manipulated and lied to by self-promoting antinuke hustlers like Harvey Wasserman thirty years ago,<BR/>and now the human race badly needs the single item that Wasserman has hung his negative career upon---- nuclear energy.<BR/><BR/>No stone must be left unturned, if mankind is to survive.<BR/><BR/>Wasserman has spent 30+ years trying desperately to sweep the reality of the subatomic realm back under the single rock upon which he stands, and the "rock-icon" cadre are 1000% dependent on his flawed outlook, for their own so-called "reasoning".<BR/><BR/>So.... they are bereft.<BR/><BR/>They are FOR nothing.<BR/><BR/>They, like their guru Wasserman are only against.<BR/><BR/>And just what are they against?<BR/><BR/>This is truly laughable.<BR/><BR/>They are AGAINST the very foundations of modern physics. Against the discoveries of Einstein, Bohr, Fermi, and Heisenberg. <BR/><BR/>Against the future, as it turns out.<BR/><BR/>And, as it is turning out now, ...<BR/>they are against all mankind.<BR/><BR/>So what do we do, viewing their charade.. applaud?<BR/><BR/>Or do we turn our heads away in shame?<BR/><BR/>Check your own gut, and get back to me later.<BR/><BR/>Harry SpringerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-13349666473982721722007-10-24T13:47:00.000-04:002007-10-24T13:47:00.000-04:00No doubt you will get to the concept that loan gua...No doubt you will get to the concept that loan guarantees are not free loans in the same way as mortgage insurance does not mean a free mortgage. <BR/><BR/>One area I've considered recently is the nuclear waste fund. This big pot of money has been handed to the government to deal with spent nuclear fuel, but it's just sitting in limbo at present. (The "reality" of this fiscal entity is something I don't even have the words to discuss). I see this as a counterweight for the loan guarantess; not necessarily a surety, but a consideration of how the flow of finance is definitely not one-way.<BR/><BR/>Of course this fund is not taxpayers' money, as sometimes claimed. Importantly, it is not ratepayers' money either, any more than the money I paid last week for groceries is still mine - they have received their electrical value for their rates paid. <BR/><BR/>---<BR/><BR/>All this is aside from the large positive contribution that nuclear makes in direct and indirect taxation, of course.Joffanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18025437863119781181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-37197712220156276132007-10-24T12:41:00.000-04:002007-10-24T12:41:00.000-04:00The problem comes from Congress's decision to keep...The problem comes from Congress's decision to keep electricity cheap by allowing high pollution levels from fossil-fired power plants. We look back at the Aztecs with horror because they sacrificed hundreds of people every month to keep the world alive. We sacrifice thousands every month to keep electricity cheap.<BR/><BR/>From the studies I've seen, if air-quality standards were set at a reasonable level then nuclear energy, renewables, and conservation all would be cheaper than fossil fuels. If Congress insists on allowing lethal levels of pollution, then it's going to take some kind of artificial incentives to encourage other energy forms.RobChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08007193547999646015noreply@blogger.com