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1) True. Which is why we should be building more... 2) EROEI is fantastically, ridiculously good for everything nuclear-related. Even the worst uranium mining
by Tuna-Fish 14y ago
1) True. Which is why we should be building more...
2) EROEI is fantastically, ridiculously good for everything nuclear-related. Even the worst uranium mining schemes beat everything else by a million times. And the costs are still minimal even with the more exotic extraction schemes. There have been trials of them, they have been successful.
3) Solar is incapable of being used as baseline generation. All intermittent capacity needs to be backed by something else. Right now, that's gas turbines. Fracking will make this feasible for ~30 years, beyond that we need something else.
The Hubbert's work in oil is not really applicable to Uranium, simply because there are effectively unlimited reserves of it at an economically acceptable price points and fantastic EROEI levels.