President Shrub thinks we will just switch to bio-fuels......that will surely save the world....
On 10/28/07 8:53 AM, "Mike Quinn" <[email protected]> wrote: > When was the last nuclear power plant built? When will the next singular plant > produce power? When will we have 10,000 nuclear power plants of *any* kind? > > Given that some say the world is already past peak oil, I personally don't see > how we're going to make it to 10,000 nukes... > > see PO article in last Monday's The Guardian: > http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,,2196435,00.html > > Graphic Showing Oil Producing Countries Past Peak Oil... > http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2007/10/25/oil-producing-countries-past-peak-oc > t-2007.png > or: http://tinyurl.com/33ambo > > If we are past PO, then the likely ensuing hoarding will accentuate the > problem... > > Mike Quinn, Austin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lyndon Tiu [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sun 10/28/2007 8:22 AM > To: Texas Cavers > Cc: > Subject: Re: [Texascavers] OT - recycling economics > > > > Mike Quinn wrote: >> Dr. David Goodstein, a physics professor at the California Institute of >> Technology and author of the best seller: "Out of Gas: The End of the Age of >> Oil" estimates that it would take 10,000 new nuclear power plants to replace >> the energy created by oil but even then the world's uranium would be gone in >> one or two decades. >> > > That's assuming we are using 10,000 "fission" nuclear power plants. > Uranium is a non-renewable resource. The supply of uranium will follow a > depletion curve similar to that of oil. > > "Fusion" nuclear (as opposed to "fission") holds more promise as it uses > heavy water/regular water/hydrogen which is more abundant, but if I > understand it correctly, current fusion nuclear technology is only good > for WMD's and not for power generation. > > There is international work underway to develop fusion nuclear tech for > power generation. If I remember it correctly, a reactor is being built > in France for this. Try googling it. > > -- > Lyndon Tiu > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
