tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post5268678552541566813..comments2024-02-16T17:52:44.944-06:00Comments on The Nuclear Green Revolution: Indian and Chinese Developmemt, Nonproliferation and ThoriumCharles Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01125297013064527425noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-3145153839063475832011-08-27T02:32:10.664-05:002011-08-27T02:32:10.664-05:00Once their economy stabilises and energy demand gr...Once their economy stabilises and energy demand growth levels off I'd expect China and India to eventually start to reduce fossil fuel use by replacing with nuclear.Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-45857081963151954752011-08-24T23:43:02.163-05:002011-08-24T23:43:02.163-05:00Thanks for a very interesting forecast that is a l...Thanks for a very interesting forecast that is a little indigestible for folks who remember the 20th century (the American century).<br /><br />The British controlled 25% of world trade until they were overtaken by the USA and now it will be China or India vying for supremacy.<br /><br />I can't help feeling that this will be a good thing especially as neither of these rapidly developing economies will try to remove nuclear power or fossil fuels from their toolkits.gallopingcamelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08490747443886030893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-41890361262156768412011-08-23T11:09:56.912-05:002011-08-23T11:09:56.912-05:00David, thanks. It has been posted on the energy c...David, thanks. It has been posted on the energy collective. If you want to post it on Daily Kos, it is ok with me. I may submit the whole essay to the oil drum when I finish it.Charles Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01125297013064527425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597656451205429515.post-2348029597404744072011-08-23T10:23:15.250-05:002011-08-23T10:23:15.250-05:00A very good essay, Charles. It should engender a l...A very good essay, Charles. It should engender a lot of discussion (I hope). Now you ought to take this to outside blogs to really get going: ask to post it on Huffington Post, The Oil Drum, Daily Kos (I can do that for you if you want). It needs to be done.<br /><br />Now, to content, interesting stuff about subsidies. Citi plays an interesting role here. On the one hand they justify, correctly, subsidies to residential consumer of water and power and questions the same subsidies to industry and agriculture. I can see that.<br /><br />However, "the other side of citi" like all of finance capital, routinely via the IMF, demand the wholesale privatization of these resources and rollbacks of these very same subsidies. <br /><br />Every commercial bank demands that such subsidies to the poor be eliminated as a condition for the loans generally to nations.<br /><br />On some other specifics, at least in terms of what they do question in this report you cite, I think they oppose subsidies to industries because quite frankly it works. One aspect of their notation that these country's economies are going to grow is that most do so specifically because the are not into "free trade" and subsidize home grown industries tremendously.<br /><br />DavidDWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03070034894266417461noreply@blogger.com