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High Steel Prices: A Preview of Peak Oil

two additional points...addressing the timing of solutions...electric cars like Israel is setting up ...is only a degree of scale in difference to mandating that we move to digital TV and subsidizing the set top converters...if we want to move to electric vehicles I am sure we can find motivations to accelerate the process...

The two points on Thorium...the plants can be be built in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost...And for the fearmongers the units can be built with a failstop similar to the freeze plugs in your car/truck engine that shuts down the reaction and stores the reactive material...no nuclear accidents that current nuclear technologies suffer from...

High Steel Prices: A Preview of Peak Oil

Carbon based fuels have a limited lifetime...the beginning of the end was the first day we started using them...the continuing folly is to argue the point...we live in an eco system that we impact significantly and no matter what we do...we are going to impact that system...the trick is find balance and avoid tipping points...electricity offers the best alternative to petroleum for transportation...Thori... powered nuclear power generation offers a solution for the future...the Indians and Russians are pursuing this as we speak...there is a tremendous amount of thorium found in nature...it offers more energy per kilogram than anything else currently known...it requires plutonium for a trigger which is why the Russians want to utilize the technology to obliterate their weapons grade fuel...why because it leaves none behind...which would solve the issues facing us from terrorist states like Iran, Korea and others that need power...political reasons are another whole discussion...half life of the material is measured in 100's of years instead of 1000's....fuel will last 7 years requiring a lot less maintenance...all of the other forms of renewable energy will provide stopgaps and alternatives but "those who have cheap and available energy will grow more stable and will be the leaders in the future...this should be the US"...

As usual Education is the key...and this site tries to accomplish that by presenting the facts...blaming politicians is a waste of time...they spend their entire lives acheiving compromise...a crisis creates change...and a crisis is approaching...