Original April 2, 2008
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First revision April 30, 2008:
Made consistent type format instead of
patched together inserts
especially in "HOW?"
Mouse-over highlighting of links
A few minor additions to the text
Cleaned out some but not all
superfluous HTML generated by wysiwyg Open
Office.
(Iceape composer now the editor of
choice)
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Second revision May 8, 2008:
Revision of "WHY" section because of
recent news of simulations which
predict
a ten year pause in global
warming.
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Third revision May 10, 2008
Minor revisions to "WHY"; added
compressed air paragraph to solar
energy in "HOW"
Extensive rewrite of "HOW"
nuclear energy section
"WHEN" is still incomplete (and
difficult!)
May 11 afterthought.. changed all
links from black to blue (except to
anchors)
& updated index page revision date
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Fourth revision May 14, 2008
"WHY" minor revisions, several
additions to "HOW" in the solar power and
nuclear power sections.
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Fifth revision September 18, 2008
Many revisions in the sppearance and formatting, for better looks and
readability.
Removed fouled (by OpenOffice) html code, type formats are finally
consistent.
Various minor text revisions and updates (to be summarized layer);
coming soon
are more updates, and summaries of and references to recent Economist articles.
WHEN is still to be "finished"; of course political issues are
part of it.
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Sixth revision October 10, 2008
Added five lines to WHY about recent Physics Today letters about
Scarfatti & West article
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Seventh revision October 28, 2008
More extensive cleanup of html messes as above; fonts are now
consistent and more readable
and print properly. Added "Economist" reference to HOW, a brief
explanation of thorium
"burnup" and other minor additions. Added web reference for Von
Hippel article now available
from Scientific American.
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Eighth revision Nov. 9, 2008
Added a short paragraph to Introduction about more frequent
updates. Some revisions to carbon
sequestration section in HOW. WHEN section about doubled, promises of
future "completion".