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Re: [cdn-nucl-l] Re: Fusion Info: Bush team eyes star power for energy needs

Jim:

        No need to think about seawater for the next several hundred years.  With fast reactors, we won't even have to mine any more uranium for a long time.  See the attached PDF figure ("US Energy Reserves"), courtesy of Chuck Boardman.  The uranium the U.S. has already mined can provide over 2,000 TW-years of energy.  That would supply the U.S. (total energy) for 750 years at the 1994 rate of consumption.

        Cheers,

                George

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At 05:56 PM 12/2/2002 -0500, Jim Muckerheide wrote:
Well Rod,

There you go again confusing engineering with gov't r&d! :-)

A good gov't "engineer" is "ever more $$ for ever more trivial solutions"
including (especially?) fusion energy

With nominal private effort and minor progress toward honest standards,
fission energy is less than half current relative costs for at least several
hundred years (with U from seawater?)

Regards, Jim

on 11/30/02 11:27 AM, AtomicRod@aol.com at AtomicRod@aol.com wrote:

>
> In a message dated 11/30/02 12:43:47 AM, adam.mclean@utoronto.ca writes:
>
> << I completely agree and understand that commercial fission reactors came
> about much faster than what will eventually happen for fusion reactors.
> On a scale of difficulty to attain, I'm sure that you'll agree that a
> controlled fusion reaction is much more difficult than a controlled
> fission reaction. >>
>
> Adam:
>
> Exactly my point. Fission is easy; fusion is extremely difficult.
>
> Easy = cheap.
> Difficult = expensive.
> I do not want a challenge; I want power.
>
> "A good engineer is a lazy cheapskate."
> Rod Adams 2002
>
> Rod Adams
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