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Thread #118954 Message #2575705
Posted By: pdq
25-Feb-09 - 01:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: The president speaks
Subject: RE: BS: The president speaks
Coal is used to produce over 50% of the electricity we use in the United States.
Nuclear reactors produce an additional 23%, for a total approximately 75%.
Another major producer of electricity is the hydroelectric dam system. New dams of the size needed to make a difference will never be built again, according to experts, partly due to cost and partly due to Environmental activism.
So, may I suggest that the people who hate coal and nuclear power turn off the lights, unplug their computers and electrical appliances, and retreat back to the Pre-Columbian era. The rest of us will carry on.