[ RadSafe ] Depleted uranium could this reduce our dependency on crude oil?
JPreisig at aol.com
JPreisig at aol.com
Mon Jun 4 11:45:21 CDT 2012
Dear Radsafe:
From: _jpreisig at aol.com_ (mailto:jpreisig at aol.com) .
Ahmad, Roy Herren, Group,
Hope you all are well. Global warming may be real. Let's
not ignore it. Let's go forward with
Fission and/or Fusion. I don't hear much from ITER in France (Fusion).
Let's hope they are
chugging along with their research and getting fusion ready for commercial
use. How cool would that
be. Yes, there are profileration concerns. The US and other countries
nuclear industries continue
to produce energy with little fanfare. Fukushima was an unfortunate
occurance.
Global warming may be a problem. We'll see. You've seen my
posts on the matter.
The real problem for the Earth is population stabilization (and perhaps
control???). Some nations
cannot continue their severe population growth and expect to have a great
standard of living.
Let's not put all the blame on the oil, gas, coal etc. industries.
The geophysicists, engineers, scientists, and their colleagues
are finding USA and /or world
resources right now. They are doing their job well. My previous posts
allude to oil and natural gas
etc. finds in Texas, Oklahoma, the Dakotas, Kansas, the Gulf of Mexico,
Pennsylvania, Alaska, Canada
and so on. Sometimes, you drill deeper and you can find more oil. 5,000
to 10,000 feet deep or
more --- sometimes under water. If the USA is becoming a net exporter of
oil, natural gas, coal, etc.
then that is wonderful news for our economy. Better to be an exporter
than a net importer from
other countries. Time for team USA to sell oil, gas, coal for a few years
and bring down the
national debt and annual deficits. Excellent. Sure, Nuclear, Fusion,
Solar, Wind etc. can go
forward. But remember, it's a competitive situation. Right now, the
oil/coal/natural gas BIG DOG is
barking pretty loud. Pricewise, fission and fusion need to be competitive.
Yes, there are state and federal taxes on sold oil, natural gas
and coal. Perhaps, a percentage
(some small fraction??) of these taxes can support better fission/fusion
development.
Is there really an energy crisis right now??? Probably, it's more of a
Human Population
crisis. See books like "the Limits to Growth" written in the 1970's.
Have a great week. Regards, Joseph R. (Joe) Preisig, PhD
In a message dated 6/4/2012 3:26:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
ahmadalanimail at yahoo.com writes:
Dear Roy, I couldn't agree more.
However, you said "There should be a place in this future for fission to
bridge us over to the use of fusion" is clearly a biased proposition,
perhaps because of our profession.
The recycling of CO using depleted uranium is not necessarily a waste-less
process, it remains to be proven in the real world.
Let the economics play things out on these choices. The news revealed in
the article of the link I provided will make the nuclear energy even less
financially competitive or even feasible, particularly in the open
un-subsidized US energy market.
Ahmad
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On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 8:28 AM AST (Arabian) ROY HERREN wrote:
>Ahmad,
>
> As a US citizen I am pained to have to ask, is it a good thing that
"Besides
>exporting coal, the United States will export LNG, oil products and
perhaps even
>crude oil in the next 10 to 15 years"? As citizens of this world, Earth,
we all
>end up eventually sharing the same air and water as these resources
>are endlessly recycled. If global warming is fact, and not fiction, as
some
>would have us believe, then wouldn't we be better served in the end by
>technology that limit continuing or growing carbon output? What will
become of
>our precious earth's atmosphere if the good and rightfully deserving
peoples of
>the developing world try to live the American and western European
lifestyle?
>Imagine a world with another billion or so gasoline and diesel powered
>automobiles and trucks. Clearly if we the people of the world are to
have an
>environment that is fit to live in we will have to make hard choices as
to our
>future and the use of resources. There should be a place in this future
for
>fission to bridge us over to the use of fusion. Many of the technologies
to
>advance our world have already been developed and in some cases are
already in
>place. Unfortunately we currently lack the cohesive political will to
push
>forward in a coherent fashion.
>Roy Herren
>
>
>
>
>________________________________
>From: Ahmad Al-Ani <ahmadalanimail at yahoo.com>
>To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
>Sent: Sun, June 3, 2012 10:01:25 PM
>Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Depleted uranium could this reduce our
dependency on
>crude oil?
>
>
>
>It looks like the energy landscape it changing in a way that "dependency
on
>crude oil" is no longer an issue affecting energy security for the US.
>
>"Besides exporting coal, the United States will export LNG, oil products
and
>perhaps even crude oil in the next 10 to 15 years" (Noel Tomnay, head of
global
>gas research at Wood Mackenzie)
>
>Source:
>http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/04/us-gas-world-idUSBRE8530112012060
4
>
>Ahmad Al-Ani
>
>
>------------------------------
>On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 3:10 AM AST (Arabian) ROY HERREN wrote:
>
>>http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2012/may/depleted-uranium-c
ould-this-reduce-our-dependency-on-crude-oil.aspx
>>
>>
>>
>>Depleted uranium could this reduce our dependency on crude oil?
>>31 May 2012 17:18:24.228
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