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To: thackney

By only source I meant close to 90%. Maybe I wasn’t exact enough in my wording . I know 100% is not realistic. But at 80%-90% nuclear for electricity would free up a lot of coal for coal to oil liquefaction, and natural gas for cars. France is pretty close to 70% to 80% nuclear powered.


29 posted on 07/24/2008 8:19:43 AM PDT by rurgan (socialism doesn't work. Government is the problem not the solution to our problems.)
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To: rurgan
Another problem with nuclear is basically the same problem as coal, natural gas and petroleum have. Environmentalists and NIMBYs.

Today most of our uranium comes from foreign suppliers. Quintupling that demand needs a change in supply. And a gift from President Carter means we still will not reprocess our nuclear waste (like France, Japan, Russia and others) requiring an even larger supply of “new” uranium.

We don't have a lack of resources, but a lack of will to use them (or rather a lack of will to elect those who will let us).

32 posted on 07/24/2008 8:25:16 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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