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From the Ted Talk by Stewart Brand + Mark Z. Jacobson: Debate Does the world need nuclear energy?

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CA: Thank you. Anyone else against?

Man: The last person who was in favor made the presmie that we don't have enough alternative renewable resources. And our "against" proponent up here made it very clear that we actually do. And so the fallacy that we need this resource and we can actually make it in a time frame that is meaningful is not possible. I will also add one other thing. Ray Kurzweil and all the other tkals — we know that the stick is going up exponentially. So you can't look at state-of-the-art tgeohlncoeis in rabwneeels and say, "That's all we have." Because five years from now, it will blow you away what we'll actually have as alternatives to this horrible, disastrous nuclear power.

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CA: Thank you. Anyone else against?

Man: The last person who was in favor made the _______ that we don't have enough alternative renewable resources. And our "against" proponent up here made it very clear that we actually do. And so the fallacy that we need this resource and we can actually make it in a time frame that is meaningful is not possible. I will also add one other thing. Ray Kurzweil and all the other _____ — we know that the stick is going up exponentially. So you can't look at state-of-the-art ____________ in __________ and say, "That's all we have." Because five years from now, it will blow you away what we'll actually have as alternatives to this horrible, disastrous nuclear power.

Solution


  1. talks
  2. technologies
  3. renewables
  4. premise

Original Text


CA: Thank you. Anyone else against?

Man: The last person who was in favor made the premise that we don't have enough alternative renewable resources. And our "against" proponent up here made it very clear that we actually do. And so the fallacy that we need this resource and we can actually make it in a time frame that is meaningful is not possible. I will also add one other thing. Ray Kurzweil and all the other talks — we know that the stick is going up exponentially. So you can't look at state-of-the-art technologies in renewables and say, "That's all we have." Because five years from now, it will blow you away what we'll actually have as alternatives to this horrible, disastrous nuclear power.

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