Regime change- Middle East

[lukster]

Nuclear power for every city. Of course we'll have to out shout the greenies. I bet we could be completey self sufficient in the energy department within 5-10 years.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by lukster
Nuclear power for every city. Of course we'll have to out shout the greenies. I bet we could be completey self sufficient in the energy department within 5-10 years.

Do we have enough nuclear fuel on planet earth for that?

[VWE]

I look forward to the day the middle east runs out of oil and they return to roaming the desert on camel and poking each other with sticks! Oh to long for the 'good ol days"...

[lukster]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
Do we have enough nuclear fuel on planet earth for that?

I don't know how much uranium there is but I'll google it.

http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_1_nuclear_power.html

That�s the stunning thing about nuclear power: tiny quantities of raw material can do so much. A bundle of enriched-uranium fuel-rods that could fit into a two-bedroom apartment in Hell�s Kitchen would power the city for a year: furnaces, espresso machines, subways, streetlights, stock tickers, Times Square, everything�even our cars and taxis, if we could conveniently plug them into the grid. True, you don�t want to stack fuel rods in midtown Manhattan; you don�t in fact want to stack them casually on top of one another anywhere. But in suitable reactors, situated, say, 50 miles from the city on a few hundred acres of suitably fortified and well-guarded real estate, two rooms� worth of fuel could electrify it all.


Looks like plenty to last a long time. We may have to eventually invade Australia though. They've been gettin' kinda uppity anyhow.

http://www.uic.com.au/nip75.htm

Of course if we really want to exploit those illegal aliens there's always:

[Hawco]

I'm sick of the Huge Saudi lobby AND the Israeli lobby over here wandering round congress and buying our politicians, this has to stop, Sadui Arabia exports a very viloent form of Islam and it's been exported to all the wrong countries. We as a nation, should show the world that we are owned by nobody, we should clear out the corrupt politicians from all sides and put people in there who will put the country first, not their own personal gain.
Pipe dream I know, but dreams do come true ( sometimes)
You know one of the best things I've heard about our country? Waaaay back in 1908 at the London Olympics, King Edward or George or who ever was there taking the plaudits from the visiting nations, flags were bowed to him on passing and the American one was coming next, A big burly Irishman, ( A New york cop) who was there for wresling I think, ran up to the flag carrier and said " If you lower that flag then you'll be spending the night in hospital" needless to say, the flag stayed upright, a big stink was caused to which the American party replied " This flag lowers to nobody, no Foreign King" and it's never been lowered at any Olympics type thing since.
Be nice to get back to that again guys....

[Elfie]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
Personally I'd love for us to develop a petroleum alternative and make the ENTIRE region insignificant.

No more oil sales would mean no more monies to give to groups like Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Hizbollah and Al-Qaeada etc etc. That could only be a good thing

[Bluedog]

Present world mine output (around 48,000 t U3O8) is little more than half the level of consumption by utilities (80,000 t). The balance comes from inventories held by utilities, recycled material, and substantial amounts fed into the civil cycle from diluted ex-military material.
From: http://uic.com.au/econ.htm




Currently we use 80,000 ton, and only mine 48,000.
Sounds to me like an unsustainable rate of consumption, just how many lots of 80,000 tons of this stuff is there? At that rate, how many years before uranium is unfeasably expensive to extract from the earth because any that is reasonably easy to mine has allready been taken.

It seems nuclear power is(or would be) only a short term solution for a never ending problem?


Just personaly that 80,000 t p/a seems an awefull lot......thats enough to keep one hell of a lot of light bulbs glowing.

[Maniac]

I aprove of this thread.

[BlueJ1]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
Personally I'd love for us to develop a petroleum alternative and make the ENTIRE region insignificant.

Run for President. I'll give you the first vote I'll make in my life.

[lazs2]

there will be petroleum alternatives... it is inevitable...  I do not want the government to get involved and slow down development tho.

they will but... I can hope... watch em.. they will offer rebates and such for solar electricity and that will of course stop all real development... why develop when any piece of crap you put on the roof gets the same rebate?

If the government want's to get involved.... Put a 1 billion dollar reward on the first 60% efficient solar panel that costs less than $500 a panel.

lazs

[Tarmac]

Unfortunately, we need middle east oil to prop up the dollar.  If we piss them off too much, they can begin taking other currencies for oil.  Demand for the dollar evaporates, nobody will loan the US money anymore, and all of a sudden everybody decides to collect on the trade deficit and budget deficit our spineless retard politicians told us we could sustain forever.  Great Depression part II.

We're hooked.

[Elfie]

Originally posted by Tarmac
Unfortunately, we need middle east oil to prop up the dollar.  If we piss them off too much, they can begin taking other currencies for oil.  Demand for the dollar evaporates, nobody will loan the US money anymore, and all of a sudden everybody decides to collect on the trade deficit and budget deficit our spineless retard politicians told us we could sustain forever.  Great Depression part II.

We're hooked.

Not if we develop the new technology and sell it to everyone else>

[Sandman]

No doubt... someone will come up with a viable alternative. Exxon will buy it from the inventor/developer for $1 Billion ++ and the alternative will disappear for a few decades.

[DREDIOCK]

I say we take a map and draw a big triangle

Draw a line from Istanbul to the south coast of Yemen
From Yemen to Uzbekistan
And from Uzbekistan back to Istanbul.

Wipe out everything within that triangle and stat over from scratch

[DREDIOCK]

So you can see the area Im talking about