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California - And by Extension the U.S. - Headed for Permanently Smaller Economy

Also, take a look at "Physics for Future Presidents" by Richard A. Muller, particularly chapters 12 and 13, Nuclear Power , and Nu
clear Waste.


On Jul 08 05:59 AM Davewmart wrote:

> A reply to a couple of the points made in this very long thread:
>
> My statement that several new Saudi Arabia's worth of oil would need
> to be discovered and developed to maintain supplies at current levels
> even if at much higher prices, and that the needed investment just
> is not happening is not my contention, but that of the IEA.
> Very expensive and scarce oil shortly is now built in.
>
> Another correspondent wrote:
> 'Just one teeny tiny little problem with nuclear power. The waste
> is very deadly and has a half life of 25000 years. The cost of removing,
> transporting and especially storing this waste cannot be calculated
> and is borne by the taxpayer not the for profit energy company.'
>
>
> Nuclear technology does not need to be static, in fact the type of
> light water reactors that ended up being built were chosen mainly
> because they are good at producing weapon's grade materials, not
> because they were very good at producing energy.
> With appropriate designs the 'waste' from current reactors and the
> weapons program can be used as valuable fuel.
> In addition plentiful thorium can be used, and burnt 100-300 times
> as efficiently as in current reactors.
> This is not a distant vision like fusion, but is based on an actual
> demonstrator reactor which ran in the US in the late 60's at Oak
> Ridge.
> Here is more information on this technology:
> www.energyfromthorium.com/

New Vehicle Fuel Consumption Could Be Cut by 30% or More

A truly spot-on description of American pathological adolescence. Let us never grow up, let us remain eternally youthful and needful of cheap thrills, whatever the cost.