The industry's Working On A Suitcase reactor. Totally safe and very modular. I believe it when I see it.
On Wed, Mar 9, 2022, 4:05 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Maybe we should find someone who has invested in uranium mines who could > help us out > > --FT > > On 3/9/22 3:50 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: > >> uranium fell back to $8/lb. > > So, a pound of uranium would run my house for how long? > > At about 20,000 kWH/lb I could run my house at full feed load, > > electric furnace turned to '11', doors left open, my wife in charge > > of the lights, and everything else turned on too, for 16 days. > > > > Should be able to stretch it to a month, easy, under normal > > use patterns. (Perhaps three.) I'd be OK with an $8/month > > power bill. With any reasonable co-generation implementation, > > the waste heat would be used in the home, and that $8 could > > perhaps easily stretch to a year. > > > > Of course, uranium has gone up, apparently rather a lot recently. > > (It was $11/lb in 2003, and $100/lb in 2007.) Even so, still sounds > > pretty affordable. > > > > Now, if only there was a "Mr. Fission" desktop reactor... > > > > The US Govt is sitting on some billion (!) pounds of > > uranium, in the form of depleted UF6. Only needs Mr. Fission > > and some slight enrichment in order to be ready to go! > > > > -- Jim > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archiveshttp://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > -- > --FT > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
