Stephen J. Rush wrote:

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:47:19 -0700, Joerg wrote:

Maybe. Power plants are supposedly evil, so practically none are built.
Nuclear is even more evil in the eyes of enviro-freaks. No wait, that's
nucular, ain't it ...?

But of course they all want their fresh cooled fromage, chilled Zin and
all that stuff.

The late John W. Campbell maintained that some of the greenies are so
ignorant of physics that they literally don't see the relation between
that ugly power plant down the road and the magic that allows them to get
ice in August and keep meat for more than a few hours without worrying
that it might become unsafe to eat. Oh, they dimly remember what they
heard in elementary-school science classes, but it just doesn't register
emotionally, any more than the mid-nineteenth-century hunters could
believe that they would ever run out of buffalo. Rudyard Kipling saw it
coming more than a century ago; look up "The Sons of Martha" at
gutenberg.org.

There are some technically literate greenies. This online book thing is
interesting:

http://www.withouthotair.com/

Chris