As shown in the Sept. issue, the totally unproven CFC-ozone connection is extremely improbable. That has not prevented Neville Shultz signing an international agreement to limit CFC production in mid-September.
¾Science (10/30/87) brings an (apparently straight-faced) letter suggesting vicious cycles because CFCs escaping from refrigerators induce a climactic warming that increases the need for CFC-powered refrigerators, and because CFC-powered aerosol sprays of sunblock "may deplete the stratospheric ozone layer and in-crease the need for the product."¾Meanwhile, Prof. Klack, in the Sept. Kansas Intelligencer (5524 Anderson Ave., Manhattan, KS 66502) points out another irrationality: if chlorine is essential to the hypothesis, then ocean salt, raised aloft by vast ocean storms is an enormously greater source of chlorine than CFCs, (both are broken down by UV radiation to free the chlorine)."How would it affect the US trade deficit if all the nuclear power plants that are at or near operative completion were produc-ing at full capacity?"
M.F., Sudbury, Mass.
This is indirectly answered in Lennox and Mills' excellent report An analysis of the role of nuclear power in reducing US oil imports (USCEA, 1776 I St. NW/#400, Wash., DC 20006). Since the 1973 oil embargo, nuclear plants have saved $3.3 billion barrels of oil, corresponding to $106 billion (1986 dollars). That is, of course, peanuts compared with what the Washington turkeys spend on themselves and on the interest groups who keep them there; it is also peanuts compared with the trade deficit, which I find less im-portant. Health, safety and national security make better pro-nuclear arguments, for even most of the brainwashed parrots still put morality above money.
"I liked your rubber stamp, 'This letter has come to you with the speed, efficiency, and low cost of a government monopoly. So I had one of my own design made: If the post office delivered the milk, we'd have two choices: powdered or sour!'"
K.A.B., Blind Channel, B.C., Canada
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Vol. 15, No. 5
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Issues Issue/No.: Vol. 15, No. 5 Date: December 01, 2004 10:29 AM Title: Peace in Our Time
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