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02-04-2007, 06:36 PM
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Re: Global Warming: What needs to be done?
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Unfortunately it would only take about 10 years to use up all minable uranium resources if we were to power our entire global economy from nuclear power. [/ QUOTE ] I have no idea how much minable uranium exists. This is an excellent point. Do you have any links to resources? Thanks. 
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02-04-2007, 07:03 PM
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Re: Global Warming: What needs to be done?
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[ QUOTE ] Sure I have. But if the plan is to replace all energy currently being produced by carbon emission creating resources with nuclear power, then: 1. The amount of nuclear waste produced would go way up; and 2. The amount of nuclear waste being produced would pile up faster than the rate at which the radiation would decay down to safe levels, so even all the space in the Nevada desert would eventually fill up. [/ QUOTE ] This is rubbish. We will run out of uranium before this happens. Unfortunately it would only take about 10 years to use up all minable uranium resources if we were to power our entire global economy from nuclear power. [/ QUOTE ] I have a feeling that much like the 'shortage' of proven oil reserves, the same miracle will occur when we need much more fissionable material. Wouldn't it be nice if fusion energy became the national goal?
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#43
02-04-2007, 07:08 PM
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Re: Global Warming: What needs to be done?
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Wouldn't it be nice if fusion energy became the national goal? [/ QUOTE ] I would go along with this, provided that the message doesn't turn into "let's build 100 reactors starting tomorrow." I don't think we're close enough to that goal to implement.
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#44
02-04-2007, 07:08 PM
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Re: Global Warming: What needs to be done?
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I have no idea how much minable uranium exists. This is an excellent point. Do you have any links to resources? Thanks. [/ QUOTE ] I'd imagine that no one knows. If we have a ten year supply at ten fold consumtion, that suggests a 100 year supply of proven reserves at today's rate. No mining company gives a rip about anything further into the future. Likely they'll find all the uranium needed. Maybe a bit more expensive but technology has always bailed us out.
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#45
02-04-2007, 07:11 PM
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Re: Global Warming: What needs to be done?
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[ QUOTE ] Wouldn't it be nice if fusion energy became the national goal? [/ QUOTE ] I would go along with this, provided that the message doesn't turn into "let's build 100 reactors starting tomorrow." I don't think we're close enough to that goal to implement. [/ QUOTE ] There are ~100 running in the US today. We need maybe 1000.
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#46
02-04-2007, 09:16 PM
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Re: Global Warming: What needs to be done?
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[ QUOTE ] Unfortunately it would only take about 10 years to use up all minable uranium resources if we were to power our entire global economy from nuclear power. [/ QUOTE ] I have no idea how much minable uranium exists. This is an excellent point. Do you have any links to resources? Thanks. [/ QUOTE ] This link should help: http://cestar.seas.ucla.edu/docs/URANIUM1.PDF
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#47
02-05-2007, 07:23 PM
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Re: Global Warming: What needs to be done?
Global Warming: What needs to be done?
Ignore it and wait 10-15 years until all the current theories about global warming are proven to be inaccurate. Rinse and repeat every 20 years or so.
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#48
02-05-2007, 09:39 PM
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Increase gas tax [/ QUOTE ] Iron, Given your other positions it seems odd to me that you would favor raising an already incredibly regressive tax that is one of the biggest burdens on the working poor in America today. How do you respond to that?
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#49
02-05-2007, 09:43 PM
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Re: Global Warming: What needs to be done?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Good call. Since AC has no way of dealing with global warming [/ QUOTE ] false [/ QUOTE ] Okay...potd goes to shake I guess... [/ QUOTE ] An AC society wouldn't forcefully shield corporations from liability for their pollution. That was hard. Edited to add: Presumably Shake didn't bother to specify that because it's been posted 7,436 times here before but I guess I'm more patient than he is. Edited again to add: And before everyone accuses me/Shake of an AC hijack, notice, as usual, that the issue was brought up by a statist in response to an ACist providing relevant content to a non-AC thread.
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#50
02-05-2007, 09:50 PM
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Re: Global Warming: What needs to be done?
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[ QUOTE ] Increase gas tax [/ QUOTE ] Iron, Given your other positions it seems odd to me that you would favor raising an already incredibly regressive tax that is one of the biggest burdens on the working poor in America today. How do you respond to that? [/ QUOTE ] Because the pollution coming out of the working poor's car damages the earth the same as a wealthy man's hummer?
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