Hi Jim
On (27 Jan 98) Jim Dunmyer wrote to Alec Cameron...
 JD> As you say, there are more good reasons for using a few large generating
 JD> plants than there are for many small ones. Big plants are much more
 JD> efficient in many ways (fuel, labor, and *especially* capital costs),
 JD> pollute less on a per-KWHR basis, and don't have the NIMBY problem. (Not
 JD> In My BackYard)
I sure hope your message got a big audience. I get a bit sick of the cry "why
doesn't the Government....."
 JD> Same goes for heat: I've heated my home with wood for a couple of 
seasons,
 JD> just to see if I could do it. Still heat the shop with a woodstove.
Wood burning is a "nice" rustic practice and the supporters are paying for a
hobby.
 JD> However, oil prices are at an all-time low, so who's to say that we're
 JD> wrong?
I'll be brave and say you are wrong. Low price doesn't justify excessive use.
The low price is a transient thing. It will rise, and fall, and rise, and....
The more we burn greedily, the worse the air we breathe, the worse the 
arming
of the planet, the less food can be grown. In an era of rapid population
growth.
Stop the world I wanna get off!  Cheers......ALEC
... Good families are generally worse than any others [Anthony Hope]
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