A Climate Change Potpourrie from CCNET
Timothy Birdnow (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
... By Vaclav Smil Our transition away from fossil fuels will take decades-if it happens at all. During the early 1970s we were told by the promoters of nuclear energy that by the year 2000 America’s coal-based electricity generation plants would be relics of the past and that all electricity would come from nuclear fission. What’s more, we were told that the first generation fission...
