it is a rumour - by the water truck
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From: Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: poem - uranium tech
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:48:55 -0000
What's a furphy?
joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "meikamonagmail" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 1:33 AM
Subject: Re: poem - uranium tech
>On 15/03/2007, at 12:14, Janet Jackson wrote:
>
>>>
>>There's a lot of uranium in the ground and people wanting
>>to make money out of it, I guess, and not as much money to
>>be made from solar or wind power.
>>
>>Janet
>
>
>I'm afraid there actually isn't that much uranium in the ground (you're
>right on the money about the money though). This is a furphy.
>
>Using present uranium based technologies if nuclear energy was used to
>replace all CURRENT coal fired power stations in the world the best
>reserves would be used up in about three (3) years, and the lower grade
>deposits (releasing a lot of CO2 in processing) would give a few years
>more (total about 9).
>
>Now there is a proposed cyclotron technology for utilising thorium as a
>nuclear energy source, and there is a lot of this in the ground, could
>last for thousands of years (most reserves in India and Australia) however
>the technology is decades away from commercial and practical use, but it
>is more reasonable and possible than fusion, and not pie in the sky cold
>fusion. It's radioactive by-products would be less deadly that uranium
>based technologies.
>
>however as uranium is the most concentrated fuel we can mine I propose
>that it not be used at all as a power source on earth, but to be saved for
>long range space missions and no other purpose. (IE to other stars).
>
>but such a proposal is both too practical and too visionary for our
>middlebrow management elite, focussed as they are on bringing democratic
>torture to various places around the world, it being a much better outcome
>than torture by scum dictatorships of course.
>
>meika
>http://meika.loofs-samorzewski.com
>
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