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 .pxvi [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Deutsch | David Deutsch ]] 2011 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beginning_of_Infinity | The Beginning of Infinity ]] CedarMill 501 DEUTSCH  .pxvi [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Deutsch | David Deutsch ]] 2011 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beginning_.p92 note p224 Ch04n47
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   . [[ https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source | How Does the Land Use of Different Electricity Sources Compare? ]] Hanna Ritchie, Our World in Data, June 16, 2022    . [[ https://ourworldindata.org .p120 note p226 Ch06n11 /land-use-per-energy-source | How Does the Land Use of Different Electricity Sources .p92 note p224 Ch04n47
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 .'''p219 NOTES'''


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 .'''p219 NOTES''

Rad Future

The Untold Story of Nuclear Electricity and How it will Save the World

Isabelle Boemeke . 2025 . 333.7924 . Beaverton Lib


  • .pxiii INTRODUCTION

  • pxiv most Amazon fires started by illegal land clearing, but climate change makes them more severe
  • pxiv Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil gateway to Uruguay

  • px . How Does the Land Use of Different Electricity Sources Compare?
    • Hanna Ritchie

    • Our World in Data, June 16, 2022v former (NOT NOW) eco-misanthrope, "... humans should go extinct ..."
  • pxv others David Attenborough

  • p93 note p224 Ch04n48
  • p105 note p225 Ch05n13
  • p109 note p226 Ch06n02
  • p120 note p226 Ch06n11 odreads.com/quotes/523470-the-human-race-is-just-a-chemical-scum-on-a | Steven Hawking - humans chemical scum ]]
    • misunderstood by Boemeke
    • "scum" == very thin and vulnerable biolayer film
    • .. on a vastly larger planet
    • .. in a frighteningly dangero .p120 note p226 Ch06n11 us universe
    • implication: we must gEnvironmental Aspects of Uranium Mining | row vastly more capable to protect the Earth

    • some say (including me) "the dinosaurs died because they didn't have a space program"
  • pxvi young people pervasive hopelessness www.c
  • pxvi David Deutsch 2011 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beginning_.p92 note p224 Ch04n47

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  • p120 note p226 Ch06n11 of_Infinity | The Beginning of Infinity ]] CedarMill 501 DEUTSCH

  • pxvi every problem is solvable, if we have enough information about it

PART 1: A WHOLE NEW ERA

  • p003 ch01 THE DAWN OF THE ATOMIC AGE

  • p005 What Could Have Been

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  • p008 What Actually Happened

  • p010 The Impact'.p92 note p224 Ch04n47

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  • p109 note p226 Ch06n02
  • p120 note p226 Ch06n11 '
  • p011 Infinite Possibility .p120 note p226 Ch06n11

  • p013 . ''pragmatic'' optimism

PART 2: Alchemy

  • p019 ch2 HUMANS AND ENERGY

  • p019 Energy Is the Currency of the Universe

, International Atom.p92 note p224 Ch04n47

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  • p109 note p226 Ch06n02
  • p120 note p226 Ch06n11 ic Energy Agency
  • p022 Energy Timeline

  • p029 ch3 FOSSIL FUEL's FINAL BOSS

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  • p031 How Nuclear Reactors Work

  • p039 Nuclear is RAD(IANT)

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    • [[ https://ourworldindata.org .p120 note p226 Ch06n11 /land-use-per-energy-source | How Does the Land Use of Different Electricity Sources .p92 note p224 Ch04n47

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  • p105 note p225 Ch05n13
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  • p120 note p226 Ch06n11 Compare? ]] Hanna Ritchie, Our World in Data, June 16, 2022
  • p043 'Land Use per KWh' wrong source, odd units, actual data here, units are m²-year per MWh, equivalent to m² per annual average watts divided by 114

nuclear

0.3 m²

methane gas + CCS

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hydropower > 660MW

14 m²

Solar PV

19 m²

Coal pow0er + CCS

21 m²

Small hydropower < 360MW

33 m²

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.p92 note p224 Ch04n47

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  • p117 The Ultimate Energy Diet

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  • p122

PART 3 DIPLOMACY: FIGHTING A WORLD AGAINST NUCLEAR

  • p133 ch7 CHANGING TIDES

  • p133 Nuclear Before Environmental Aspects of Uranium Mining | Nukes

  • p134
  • p135
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  • p136
  • p137 Atomic Fervor

  • p141 Mixed Feelings

  • p141 74 new reactors worldwide from 1960 to 1970
  • p143 The Antinuclear Movement

  • p148
  • p148
  • p151 Grubby Hands

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  • p158 ch08 THREE DECADES OF BAD ENERGY POLICY

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  • p160
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  • p163 The Land of Wine, Great Aesthetics, and Nuclear Electricity

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  • p165 Who Killed Nuclear Electricity?

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  • p171 ch9 VIBE SHIFT

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  • p185 Gender Gap

  • p187
  • p188 The Nuclear Renaissance

  • p193 Small Modular Reactors

  • p199 ch10 MANIFESTING A RAD FUTURE

  • p203 Nuclear Before Nukes

  • p206 organization

  • p209 Nick Touran What is Nuclear?

  • p213 GLOSSARY

  • p219 NOTES

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