Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Uranium - from seawater
It seems to me that there are numerous abundant sources of energy in the world besides oil.
So, who or what is preventing their use; and WHY?...
So, who or what is preventing their use; and WHY?...
This is posted by BW at NextBigFuture.com:
"We can withdraw 16 000 tonne/yr of uranium from seawater continuously for hundreds of millions of years. This is enough to produce 16 000 GWe or 480 quadrillion BTU per year, which is 6 times the world’s present electricity usage, and almost the world’s present total energy consumption."