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71 comments on "Energy Resources and Our Future" - Speech by Hyman Rickover in 1957

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damfino on June 30, 2007 - 10:47am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top

1957...There was a prophet among us, and we did not know.

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Engineer-Poet on June 30, 2007 - 10:59am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

We've had many.  Farrington Daniels was in the nuclear business before he changed his focus to solar energy, and Vannevar Bush's post-WWII book was eerily prescient.

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Gail the Actuary on June 30, 2007 - 11:05am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I thought this speech was amazing when I first read it - passed along a link to several of my friends.

Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover is considered the father of the nuclear submarine. He had great influence on the development of US nuclear power generation. He felt that nuclear would be around significantly longer than fossil fuel.

He was also an advisor to Jimmy Carter.

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MicroHydro on June 30, 2007 - 9:41pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Jimmy Carter was first a protege of Hyman Rickover, then later David Rockefeller on the trilateral commission. This explains in part the failure of his presidency. No man may serve two masters. On one hand, Carter recalled Rickover's lessons on the perils of fossil fuel dependence. On the other hand, the very oily House of Rockefeller backed his campaign. End result: The Carter Doctrine 1980

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Checkerboard Strangler on June 30, 2007 - 1:08pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Nobody listened.
Of course nobody listened either when Carter told us in 1977 that "energy independence is the moral equivalent of WAR".
For all the things people lambast Carter for, that speech
was the last and best warning we had.

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