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Gilgamesh on September 5, 2007 - 10:29am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

If refitting the trains to electric and the nuclear build up were to have occurred at the same time, the train would be done many many years before the power plant produced even a single watt of power.

Thus the two can be conducted in parallel.

(even using a 5-10 year time line for nuclear plant construction and a probable 5 year time line for new rail, the savings which the rail enjoys can finance the new nuclear plants)

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CrystalRadio on September 5, 2007 - 11:47am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Gilgamesh, 'refitting trains and nuclear build up' merely mean adding more fuel to the fire as long as the population keeps increasing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_population

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Aniya on September 6, 2007 - 11:24pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Hi Crystal,

Time to put in a word for an approach:

"Seeking a stable future: perspectives on population policy. The legal approach: women's rights as human rights." by RN Pine.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uid...

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