Re: Life after the oil crash

In article <dafd88$6mh$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, rlbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Bell) wrote:
>In article <Rxoye.12917$U4.1563524@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>Bruce Sinclair <bruce.sinclair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>In article <dad3ep$90d$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>rlbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Bell) wrote:
>>>In article <e%kye.11575$aA5.3141@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>Nocturnal <nocturnal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>I am scared and
>>>>feel a little hopeless. I have a five year old son and I would love to see
>>>>him grow up. I'm sure some of you have children as well. What can I do to
>>>>prepare for the coming oil shortage? How bad will it really be? Will it be
>
>>>>all out hysteria with Armageddon like things happening?
>>>>
>>>The oil shortage is a lot further off than you think. However, that does
>>>not mean that we should be complacent. Start lobbying your legislators for
>>>a sweeping expansion of the use of nuclear power. The prime complaints
>>>against nuclear power are the waste products and nuclear proliferation.
>>>Given that nuclear fission products are neatly contained in the spent fuel
>>>pellets, and that even a once-through fuel cycle is practical for a long time
>>>(a ten percent rise in nuclear electricity will pay for extracting uranium
>>>from sea water), spent fuel is a non-issue. We have long since built steel
>>>casks that will survive intense fires, massive collissions, and falling
>>>onto hardened steel spikes from several stories.
>>
>>Survive for how many tens of thousands of years ? Until you are dead is not
>>sufficient - sorry :)
>>
>The waste repository need not sequester the waste for more than six hundred
>years.

Why do you believe this ? Please name that isotope :)

>The virtually indestructible transport casks do not have to last more than
>a few years (a few weeks if there is already a destination available when
>they are completed).

INteresting point of view ... tho I still believe you are wrong. Again,
please name your isotope :)


Bruce


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