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jmc@Steam.stanford.edu (John McCarthy) wrote:

>Uranium will not run out by 2050, not even without breeder reactors.
>You are probably using some old assumptions about the rate of growth
>of nuclear power and the amount of uranium that had been found.
>Nuclear power has grown more slowly than anticipated, and lots more
>uranium has been found.

>With breeder reactors and using ores whose energy content is more than
>that of pure coal, there is a billion year supply.  Bernard Cohen has
>made one such calculation, and you can find the reference on my Web
>page http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/references.html.

>Plastics can be made from any source of carbon and hydrogen.  If
>natural gas weren't so convenient, coal and water could be used.

>The U.S. has an 800 year supply of coal already discovered.

>Not even Britain will run out of its own coal by 2050.

>Are they all crackpot doomsters in the Centre for Environmental
>Chemistry, BRUNEL University?

>-- 
>John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
>*
>He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
>http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/

I just saw in the news that CERN had managed to produce anti-matter,
and that the energi potential of this is kind of imense. Maybe this is
the thing for the future? 


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