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I'd like to direct Mr. Leonard's attention to another techno-thriller on energy issues: "Rad Decision: A Novel of Nuclear Power". Written by a longtime US nuclear plant engineer, this book describes the real world of nuclear energy and follows a plant as it heads for disaster. All sides in the nuclear power debate will find things to think about in Rad Decision. It is available free online at RadDecision.blogspot.com (see the many positive reader reviews at the homepage), and is also now in paperback at online retailers.
"I'd like to see Rad Decision widely read." - Stewart Brand, founder of "The Whole Earth Catalog" and noted futurist.
James Aach
Author of Rad Decision
The last question of the interview was about whether Eschbach thought peak oil would be a good thing. Part of the reply:
"[Lovelock] said that at least five billion humans would die within the next ninety
years, not even counting [sic] those yet unborn. That is over fifty million people per year, corresponding to the entire population of a country like France, that would disappear; or rather, not disappear but lie around as corpses, decompose and initiate epidemics. If that really occurred, it seems more likely that NOBODY AT ALL would remain alive at the end of this century.
Compare this to the noise made by certain politicians about the expected loss of two percent of Germany's population over the next forty years..."
