[XCSSA] Man Made Global Warming Consensus A Farce?

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:57 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio  
wrote:

> I did recently read and article saying we only have about a 60 year
> supply of Uranium (world-wide). I'm not sure I believe that, though,
> since the article didn't elaborate on that whatsoever. It's hard for
> someone to convince me without providing additional facts for
> something like this.

(oops, that was my message you replied to, I forgot to sign it)

That's like saying we only have 10 years of oil left, because RVs  
only get 2 miles to the gallon. The people who say that just want you  
to scare you away from even considering nuclear.

* as always, this is based on the "known reserves", completely  
ignoring future finds, and technlogy making more finds usable

* which brings us to: that short time is mostly thanks to Jimmy  
Carter outlawing reprocessing (I believe the directive expired a  
couple of years ago, but nobody here is doing it yet) when  
reprocessing simply doesn't make pure enough plutonium for the  
"terrrists" to make bombs - and breeder reactors? evil incarnate!

* there are other radioactives than uranium that can be used, such as  
thorium

* Then there is the how the problem with nuclear waste that makes it  
unusable for power is the contaminants, highly radioactive, but with  
a short half life. We don't need to store nuclear waste for 10000  
years, we just need to reprocess it to get the nasty stuff out, store  
the nasty stuff for 100 years or so, and we have usable fuel again.

That's like cooking a chicken, eating the wings, then throwing away  
the rest of the chicken as "biological waste" because you can't make  
any more buffalo wings out of it. Why, at that rate, they're only  
going to last 60 years and we have to contain all that waste, so we  
have to stop eating them NOW because we'll run out of chickens to  
make buffalo wings from!

And even the nasty stuff is potentially usable for radiothermal  
power, using the energy from decay rather than fusion.

  - Bruce -