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-=> JIM WELLER wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 SH>   you are pro nuke if you are driving one because no other
 SH>   fuel can create electricity as cleanly as nuke can.  Wind
 SH>   and solar just can't keep up with increased demand

 DD> With nuke you have the HUUUUUGGGGEEEE problem of what to do with the
 DD> nuclear waste - some of which has a half-life measured in thousands of
 DD> centuries.

 JW> Nuke gets a lot of exaggerated bad press but its waste management is
 JW> doable. Think encased in glass and stored in stainless steel boxes
 JW> inside concrete bunkers at the bottom of our deepest closed down
 JW> mines.  https://tinyurl.com/nuke-waste-disposal

Fair enuff. If rockets were more reliable (or an electromagnetic rail
gun of sufficient power) we could fire it off into the thermo-nuclear
furnace that is the sun. 
 
 DD> Personally I see the solution being in hydro (dams), wind, solar and
 DD> tidal with battery storage and (ultimately) a global grid.

 JW> These are also vital tools in the overall plan. So is burning
 JW> natural gas as an interim measure as it's much cleaner than either
 JW> oil or coal. Also reducing demand for oil by beefing up mass public
 JW> transportation systems to reduce the need for as many privately
 JW> operated motor vehicles and high speed rail to reduce our reliance
 JW> on short and medium distance air flights.

All desirable outcomes. The problem with natural gas these days is that
it is increasingly gotten by "fracking" which introduces a whole other
set of environmental problems.
 
 JW> North American governments have made a huge mistake from the 1950s
 JW> onward in subsidising highways and airports at the expense of
 JW> railways and urban subways.

You'll get no argument from me on that. It started in the 40s with GM's
aggressive marketing of passenger busses to replace light rail and 
street cars.
 
MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

      Title: The Ritz Streetcar
 Categories: Five, Beverages, Booze, Citrus
      Yield: 1 guzzle

      1 oz Crown Royal Reserve
      1 oz Earl Grey-tea infused
           - Cointreau
      1 oz Fresh squeezed lemon juice
    1/2 oz Simple syrup

  To make this concoction, place eight Earl Grey tea bags
  in a container with an ounce of hot water, then pour a
  750 ml bottle of Cointreau in and cover overnight. 

  In the morning, strain the infusion back into a bottle. 

  To complete the cocktail, combine an ounce of the
  infusion with the remaining ingredients over ice in a
  cocktail shaker and shake vigorously for about 20
  seconds. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass rimmed
  with bergamot-infused sugar and stand on guard.

  By head bartender Moses McIntee; Toronto's Ritz-Carlton
  Hotel

  RECIPE FROM: https://www.theglobeandmail.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

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... LATTE: (n) Italian for you paid too much for that coffee.

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