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Re: Nice intellectual exercise | |
Posted By: scarab | Date: 2/3/11 5:37 p.m. |
In Response To: Nice intellectual exercise (SquirrelOnFire) : and nice plug on LFTRs too. Wish the US would drop a few billion into : research so we can make the materials needed to implement them on a wider : scale. If the US doesn't then China will. They can then sell the reactors to us and good luck to them. But I don't agree with the pessimistic spin of the articles on China's future technological dominance. I don't think that the tech is so advanced that the US couldn't recover lost ground. OTOH Its just not good economics to let a competitor take the lead in such a vital industry. And America has already dropped behind many countries that it used to lead in education and I think that China has taken the lead as the world's leading energy consumer. No country is guaranteed a free ride for ever. If the US wants to stay near the top of the economic leagues then it needs to concentrate on: education, science, technology and some form of production.
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