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In reply to the discussion: Stewart Brand: Why Environmentalists Must Accept Nuclear [View all]hatrack
(59,654 posts)16. Someone, somewhere, will do it cheaper and dirtier with the same energy sources . . .
Because to do so means maximizing through-put and "efficiency" (in the economic, if not ecological sense) and because to do so means acquiring some sort of short-term (these days, a human generation or two) advantage.
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Sorry - it's actually low energy "transformity" that's the hallmark of low quality.
GliderGuider
Feb 2013
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