[ExI] peak fossil by 2020

[Jeff Davis]

Thanks, John.


On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:36 AM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013  Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
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>> > This is considerably worse than I expected:
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>> http://www.energywatchgroup.org/fileadmin/global/pdf/EWG-update2013_long_18_03_2013.pdf
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> I confess I was a bit put off by one of the first sentences in the article
> "the shortage of fossil and nuclear energy resources [...]" . It turns out
> that by "nuclear energy resources" they mean U 235 and only U 235, a
> whopping .007 of mined Uranium. The latent energy locked up in U238 that
> can be released in breeders is not even mentioned. Now don't get me wrong
> I'm not a great fan of Uranium breeders, but you should at least mention
> them. And far far worse the word "Thorium" is not used in the entire long
> article, not once. A shortage of nuclear energy resources?
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> Also the term "Methane Clathrate" is not used one time in the article even
> though it contains twice as much energy as all the world's petroleum, coal,
> natural gas, oil shale, and every other fossil fuel combined. I think
> something like that at least deserves a mention even if you later dismiss
> it for some reason, but they're pretending it doesn't exist. A shortage of
> fossil fuel energy resources?
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>   John K Clark
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