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Wow, guess I stirred something up . I just want to point out that my intention was to discuss the talk's internal merits, not necessarily the baseline assumptions. Perhaps I should have put this in the general section....

A lively and thought-provoking talk, even though not entirely convincing. I was irritated that he dismissed solar power so lightly, on the grounds that we can't store it. I agree that it is not without its flaws and therefore not entirely convincing. His geo-engineering argument in particular seeme...

This is a general talk from Stewart Brand in which he gives his reasons to consider nuclear energy as a 'green' technology: http://www.ted.com/talks/stewart_brand_proclaims_4_environmental_heresies.html SSTAR and Hyperion are mentioned around 11:50 into the talk. The city and energy portion of his t...