Re: [asa] mistake

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Larry Johnston
(a 90-year old curmudgeon)

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From: "Glenn Morton" <glennmorton@entouch.net>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Subject: [asa] mistake
Date sent: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 14:06:47 -0500

> Sitting in Church today my thoughts wandered from the preacher and I
> realised when I calculated the life time of a 200 year nuclear fuel supply
> if we use nuclear to replace oil, it isn't an 18 year supply. To replace oil
> with nuclear requires 6 x the number of nukes we have today. So, it should
> be a 33 year lifetime.
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> Wondering why I did it, I think I stopped the math when I decided that 6
> goes into 200---18 and when it should be 3x6=18 subtract 18 from 20, equals
> 2, drop the zero, 6 goes into 20 3 times. ..So, my 3rd grade math is
> lousy, and this is clearly an example where a mistake doesn't prove that I
> know nothing on any other topic, although I might be evidence that I need to
> return to the 3rd grade for a refresher course. No anger here.
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