[ExI] too late

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> There is no shortage of any element, never was and never will be any real
> shortage of any element, with the single exception of uranium.  We will
> always need and want more of that stuff.  The rest of it, we have enough or
> can get it, given only energy, which we can get from uranium.  In a sense,
> we can turn 235 uranium into any element we want or need, with current
> technology.  We can turn uranium into wind turbines, turn it into solar
> panels, into lithium battery energy storage, into any refined element, into
> anything we want.
>

If we're going that route, doesn't bombarding thorium with neutrons make
uranium?  It's currently uneconomical, but this case sounds like we're
ignoring current economic efficiencies.
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