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| Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium |
| 2010-08-30 |
| If Barack Obama were to marshal AmericaÂ’s vast scientific and strategic resources behind a new Manhattan Project, he might reasonably hope to reinvent the global energy landscape and sketch an end to our dependence on fossil fuels within three to five years. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #8 You don't want to smell them sweat! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-08-30 22:48 |
| #7 Oil, Coal, Natural Gas - Bad, drowns polar bears Nuclear - Bad, radioactive Windmills - Bad, kills birds, not scenic Solar - Bad, damages desert environment Geothermal - Bad, water pollution Hydro - Bad, floods canyons Vacuum Energy - Bad, damages time/space continuum :-) I know - let's put environmental wackos on treadmills! |
| Posted by: DMFD 2010-08-30 22:34 |
| #6 "Whats stopping us?" > Nothing except Ourselves, + PCorrectness-Deniability aka NOT BEING HELD LEGALLY, MORALLY, ETC. RESPONSIBLE IN ANY WAY FOR ANY DEFECT OR FAILURE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-08-30 20:02 |
| #5 Democrat equation: Dependancy = good |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2010-08-30 18:57 |
| #4 Can you imagine the collective head-explosion of the Environcommies? It'll be worth doing just for that. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-08-30 17:21 |
| #3 Other than than, it's a fascinating article. What's stopping us? |
| Posted by: lex 2010-08-30 16:46 |
| #2 marshal AmericaÂ’s vast scientific and strategic resources behind a new Manhattan Project Someone needs to create a version of Godwin's Law for hack references to a "new Manhattan Project." Also for a "grand bargain." |
| Posted by: lex 2010-08-30 16:40 |
| #1 India is hoping to start up a 300MW Thorium based reactor in 2011. Fabricating the fuel is a problem and so is recyling because there are a lot of radiactively by products but we have better remote fabrication technology than 20 or even 5 years ago. So maybe. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2010-08-30 14:45 |