<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org" target="_blank">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> Peak nonbreeder fissible is 2020,</blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's only 7 years away, did you reach that conclusion because in 2013 uranium is the CHEAPEST it's been since 2006, 7 years ago? I'm not entirely sure that's the correct way to make good predictions. By the way, although it was all the rage not long ago, lately I haven't heard much about peak oil by 2020; is that because in 2012 the USA saw the largest yearly increase in oil production since oil drilling started in 1859?<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> > and there are no safe, affordable breeders.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thorium breeders are inherently safe, or at least vastly safer than any uranium reactor, breeder or non-breeder. Living next to a thorium power plant would be much more pleasant than living next to a coal powered plant too. And at current rates of consumption we will run out of thorium in the Earth's crust about the same time we run out of solar energy because the sun itself will have run out of fuel. So thorium reactors have just as much right to call themselves "renewable" as solar cells do. <br>
<br></div><div> John K Clark <br></div><div><br> </div><br></div></div></div>