[cdn-nucl-l] AECL PHEV Contest

[Randal Leavitt <randal.leavitt@rogers.com>]

"Long before hydrogen becomes feasible, the less-expensive energy 
carrier "electricity" will have already captured much of the US 
transportation market (page 6). Therefore, the US nuclear energy 
community might be well advised to sidestep hydrogen and focus, over 
the next several critical decades of nuclear renewal, on our 
fundamental issues: passive safety, proliferation resistance and 
closing the fuel cycle to ensure that nuclear energy continues to be 
available, viable and sustainable as the lowest-cost provider of 
grid-distributed electricity."

Nuclear Energy and The Future
The Hydrogen Economy or the Electricity Economy?
David B. Barber
dbinid@msn.com
March 24, 2005
http://www.iags.org/barber.pdf

Based on the above article I think AECL really has to get moving on a 
whole solution that will result in more reactors being built.  They 
should be doing things like giving away free PHEVs to people who win 
an essay contest about the benefits of nuclear electricity.

Clean, quiet, electric cars running on quietly delivered power 
produced by clean, quiet reactors.  What a world we could have!

AECL should also conduct a demonstration of heated streets that do not 
require salting and plowing to keep clear in winter.

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