From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 13:10:43 MST
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From: "Kai Becker" <kmb@kai-m-becker.de>
>
> Sure. But we have seen, how the massive use of tax money can push even a
> technology as uneconomical as nuclear fission into a kind of virtual
> profitability.
>
### "Virtual profitability" is a delusion. Tax use to support any type of
energy production is not making it profitable - the net loss to those who
pay taxes is always higher than the gain to the energy users.
BTW, nuclear fission did not require significant tax money outside of basic
R&D during the war (except perhaps in Europe, where everything seems to be
supported by taxes), and if you take away the massive costs imposed by
regulation, political interference in waste disposal, and legal attacks by
greens, is still cheaper than wind power.
Rafal
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