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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Nov 15, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> There is also a corpus of information on "peak uranium".  The end  
> of easily had
> reactor grade urnaium is in sight and if we were to accelerate the  
> use of it,
> we'd run out much faster.

Here is a source that says there is enough uranium to last 6,000 years:

".NUCLEAR...

.. France is 100% nuclear plus 15% hydro, so it exports the excess  
carbon-free power to Spain, and makes a good profit. Other EU  
countries complain that French nuclear power is too competitive.

If France also switched to biofuels, like Brazil, it would be the  
first Western affluent country on the planet with zero anthropogenic  
greenhouse gas emissions.

Then we all do the same

If the CO2 is dumped freely into the air, then a coal fired power  
station, close to an open cut coal mine can produce the cheapest  
electricity. Nuclear electricity is only marginally dearer. Only  
hydro can be cheaper, but most of the good sites are already utilized.

Electricity from gas and oil is two or three times coal and nuclear  
prices. Wind energy and solar energy are four to over ten times the  
price of coal and nuclear. Wave and tidal power prices are worse  
still and with insignificant serious generating potential.

Nuclear waste is a tiny problem with dozens of safe and cheap  
solutions. Nuclear energy is also sustainable energy. Using breeder  
reactors we have enough, easily mined uranium to last us for 6000 years.

We have to go nuclear"

http://www.yeomansplow.com.au/index.htm

(This is the new guy Jerry is trying to seduce me into reading. So  
far, he looks worth the time.)