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Imagine using easily expendable and non-renewable resources, subjecting the very processes our civilization is sustained by to a great risk of failure while hav
by neonsunset 4y ago
Imagine using easily expendable and non-renewable resources, subjecting the very processes our civilization is sustained by to a great risk of failure while having an almost inexhaustible source of energy that was invented more than 50 years ago.
Surely that would be a madness and no reasonable organization would do this, right?
- fsh 4y agoAccording to IAEA data, there is considerably more minable coal than uranium on earth (by extractible energy). Current nuclear reactors are not scalable to global energy requirements.
- neonsunset 4y ago
- Ruthalas 4y agoIs that "more" by mass, or energy content?
- fsh 4y agoEnergy content of course. Uranium contains quite some energy, but it is also extremely rare. Without breeders, it would be exhausted in a few years.
- dopidopHN 4y agoIs the inexhaustible uranium in your comment? I’m unclear. Uranium is fine. But it’s totally exhaust-able.