Hi all. Can someone please forward this to Eric Storm, our last
speaker; I couldn't find his email address on
www.interstellarmissions.com.

Thanks,

Wes

p.s., here's an article pertinent to the last talk:

Possible Source of Cosmic Rays Found
By SPACE.com Staff
http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?
id%3D3932


Begin forwarded message:

From: Wes Bertrand <wb@...>
Date: September 9, 2004 5:00:25 AM PDT
To: Sdarigroup <sdari@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Nuclear power

This is a fascinating article that I thought the group would appreciate.

Wes

Let a Thousand Reactors Bloom 
Explosive growth has made the People's Republic of China the most
power-hungry nation on earth. Get ready for the mass-produced,
meltdown-proof future of nuclear energy.
By Spencer Reiss

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/china_pr.html

An excerpt:

>In that way, China's nuclear renaissance could feed the hydrogen
revolution, enabling the country to leapfrog the fossil-fueled West
into a new age of clean energy. Why worry about foreign fuel supplies
when you can have safe nukes rolling off your own assembly lines? Why
invoke costly international antipollution protocols when you can have
motor vehicles that spout only water vapor from their tail pipes? Why
debate least-bad alternatives when you have the political and economic
muscle to engineer the dream?

The scale is vast, but so are China's ambitions. Gentlemen, start your
reactors.<