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Thanks to Jason Ribeiro for taking the time to refute Mark Jacobson. Our mouths were gaping as we listened to Jacobson fling rapid-fire-nonsense in this TED debate. Stewart Brand did a credible job — but still the show-of-hands tilted from pro-nuclear more towards anti-nuke at the end of the debate. It is simply not possible to refute all of the Jacobson rubbish in 8 minutes. It would take a couple of hours, and the TED audience wouldn’t sit still for a discussion of that depth.

I think the pro-nuclear hand-waving poll at the beginning was 75-25 pro. That was a surprise to me — I’ll speculate the vote was that favorable because there are a number of engineers and entrepreneurs in the TED audience, who tend more towards critical thinking.