If we have enough nuclear capacity to produce all the electricity we need, then the oil and coal reserves in this country could probably provide enough gasoline for ~150 years. If nobody figures out a solution before that, they deserve what they get.
...LONG before that...
I'm sure if he were a nuclear engineer, he would.
However, even a layman that has read up on fusion knows what Scott said is correct.
Shoot, watch the History Channel once in a while, will 'ya?
I can heat with coal or fuel oil in my two homes in Pa. The cost to heat with coal is half that of oil. On average I use about five tons of coal verses 1,100 to 1,200 gallons of oil. In addition Anthracite coal burns cleaner than fuel oil
If the Dims get the Presidency the first report will say it's all about supply and demand, like all of the previous reports. "BUT, we Dims tried to stop crude from going to $200, we shut down refineries and oil wells to cut carbon admissions and we doubled the taxes on big oil and spent trillions on the newer cleaner much more expensive alternate energy sources, and we even shut down those dangerous nuclear power plants, hoping to reduce our dependence on imported oil and lower the cost of a barrel of crude but we could not because of what the Bush administration did, sorry" LOL
Come January 2009 you will be seeing a whole bunch of reports.
Please tell us how many cups of Cool-Aide do you drink in one day and what is the color of the sky in YOUR world? LOL
We have better things to do - impeach bush & cheney, report how they stole 2 elections, packed the justice department, politcized all departments of the government, and maybe put Karl Rove in a cell for a few years.
Download an mp3 file of "It's Over" by Roy Orbison and just put it on an endless loop.
Hyperion Fast Facts Small -1.5 meters across, approx size of a residential "hot tub"
Produces 70 MWt or 25 MWe, enough to power 20,000 average American homes or the equivalent
Buried underground out of sight and harm's way
Transportable by train, ship, truck
Sealed module, never opened on site
Enough power for 5+ years
After 5 years, removed & refueled at original factory
Uniquely safe, self-moderating using a natural chemical reaction discovered 50 years ago
No mechanical parts in the core to malfunction
Water not used as coolant; cannot go "supercritical" or get too hot
No greenhouse gases or global warming emissions
Think: Large Battery!
I'm waiting for them to start suggesting nationalizing the oil companies.
""I do not see why industrialists should be considered at all," said Scudder. "When the masses are destitute and yet there are goods available, it's idiotic to expect people to be stopped by some scrap of paper called a property deed. Property rights are a superstition. One holds property only by the courtesy of those who do not sieze it. The people can sieze it at any moment. If they can, why shouldn't they?" "They should", said Claude Slagenhop. "They need it. Need is the only consideration. If people are in need, we've got to sieze things first and talk about it afterwards." - Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
Make sure to wear a tinfoil hat while you do all that.
Bush has orbiting mind-control lasers beaming down republican thoughts.
So why did oil drop to $10 in late 1998 or early 1999? Demand from China was increasing greatly back then, too.
That optimistic news probably came from companies in the tar sand or coal industry that are trying to attract investors. But even if the process was practical at $4.50, it would come at far more financial risk because its costs are so much higher than deriving it from crude oil.
We don't have that much.
No. Gasoline-burning cars are so clean now that natural gas won't give an improvement. Several years ago in Arizona, the legislature and then-governor passed a fiasco of a subsidy program for cars that could run from both gasoline or natural gas, and even the good conversions (the minority) didn't burn more cleanly on methane.
But you also crushed a baby kitten, just to eat baby kitten brain. Evil, pure evil you are.
Why did you quote an adultress who wanted to commit murder?
Total cost of ownership = cost of fuel + cost of vehicle + cost of insurance + cost of maintenance
The cost of fuel = price per gallon * miles driven / mileage (in mpg)
Jeff
You will also notice that there are references to the info in the article, as well.
Jeff
This may be a better way of extracting hydrogen from water, but it still needs more energy than available from the hydrogen, and you don't help your case by claiming the government is trying to repress the research.
LOL!
Oh but I have. I was around when Commissar Carter pulled his marxist plan, back in the 70's. Wage and price freezes, windfall profits taxes on gas.
I remember the long lines at the gas stations as the supply dried up. And some people still remember the 5 year plans "back in the USSR", when they'd tell the factories to make 20 million pairs of size 10 shoes and the people who wore other sizes would have to wear size 10, no matter how big their feet were.
There's only one legitimate purpose for government and anytime it strays from those boundaries, there's hell to pay.
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as they are injurious to others." - Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-1785)
"The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force." -- Galt's Speech, ?Atlas Shrugged?, 1957
"Since the protection of individual rights is the only proper purpose of a government, it is the only proper subject of legislation: all laws must be based on individual rights and aimed at their protection." -- Ayn Rand
Wind power only works when there' wind and solar only works when the sun shines.
Nuclear. We could power everything with it and tell OPEC to go pound sand ( to put it politely, or to shove their oil where the sun don't shine )
You should talk. Didn't you once approach Soviet agents and try to give them some US Navy communications secrets?
Induce global warming, as we've been doing.
BTW almost none of the experts says we're entering a cooling period. RealClimate.com.
It's predicted that practical fusion reactors will be developed in 50 years. However that prediction has been made every year for the past
50+ years. So in the mean time, don't bet on anything but hydrocarbons, fission, hydro, wind, and solar, mostly the first three.?
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