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4. Renewables are the way of the future, neither fission nor fusion are needed at all

Reply to snooper2 (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 10:28 AM

Sep 2012

The estimates of remaining non-renewable worldwide energy resources vary, with the remaining fossil fuels totaling an estimated 0.4 YJ (1 YJ = 10^24J) and the available nuclear fuel such as uranium exceeding 2.5 YJ. Fossil fuels range from 0.6 to 3 YJ if estimates of reserves of methane clathrates are accurate and become technically extractable. The total energy flux from the sun is 3.8 YJ/yr, dwarfing all non-renewable resources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

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Don't do it...And are you still going to fund ITER Japan? snooper2 Sep 2012 #2

They should abandon nuclear energy right now. bananas Sep 2012 #3

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The fracking needs to stop madokie Sep 2012 #13

I understand the idea of using nat. gas as a bridge to renewables NickB79 Sep 2012 #14

What's that I smell? Oh, the sweet, sweet fumes of frack gas! NickB79 Sep 2012 #8

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