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Uranium Seawater Extraction Makes Nuclear Power Completely Renewable
Forbes ^ | July 1, 2016 | James Conca

Posted on 07/01/2016 4:39:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 07/01/2016 4:39:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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We had better hurry up and close all our power plants then, especially the ones in California near the ocean. Wouldn’t want to appear like we are superior or anything.


2 posted on 07/01/2016 4:41:32 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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Heheh ... the law of unintended consequences waits in the wings.

The only thing keeping the US Government’s ability to recklessly spend going at the moment is the Petrodollar. This alone is sufficient to explain why we can print money like we do.

Whatever threatens the Petrodollar ultimately threatens progressivism in this nation.

Something like this is a whole lotta threat to the Petrodollar.


3 posted on 07/01/2016 4:46:51 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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uranium extracted from seawater is replenished continuously, so nuclear becomes as endless as solar, hydro and wind


I tried googling but can’t find out this “replenished” works. Does anyone have anything on this?


4 posted on 07/01/2016 4:52:50 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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thorium salt reactors are the way to go.


5 posted on 07/01/2016 4:52:59 PM PDT by zek157
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Yes. If Trump were smart he would declare we are going to have an energy revolution - all of the above with funding going towards thorium reactors. At the present time thorium appears to represent the next big thing in the world of energy. I am also excited about advances in magnet technology that may provide a quantum leap forward in hydropower.

Surprised it is not talked about more, but the loss of power in long distance transmission lines seems to be forgotten in all of this green energy bullcrap.

Energy will change over the next decades in ways we cannot imagine. It is the key for a comfortable and productive society and those who extrapolate out present usage to 100 years are going to look pretty silly.


6 posted on 07/01/2016 4:59:58 PM PDT by volunbeer (ABH for President! - Anybody but Hillary)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Nice, in principle - but beside the point, in practice.

In reality, “renewable” is irrelevant; what is relevant is cynical criticism of anyone who is a patron of society because he/she is able to work to a bottom line.

All else is window dressing.


7 posted on 07/01/2016 5:01:53 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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I think they mean that the uranium is being washed off the land and absorbed from the seabed, etc., so the uranium removed from seawater is rapidly replaced.


8 posted on 07/01/2016 5:04:32 PM PDT by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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Nuclear plants are very expensive and take a long time to build. Financing and insurance usually requires government backing. That’s the biggest problem that needs to be solved.


9 posted on 07/01/2016 5:07:55 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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If they can do this with uranium, why suppose that they won’t be able to do it with gold as well?


10 posted on 07/01/2016 5:11:39 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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To: Moonman62

Government is the biggest problem that needs to be solved. Period.


11 posted on 07/01/2016 5:12:43 PM PDT by huckfillary
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They can.


12 posted on 07/01/2016 5:13:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Suck on that American-Anglo establishment globalists! For nuclear power and helps global warming. How will they kill this?


13 posted on 07/01/2016 5:13:33 PM PDT by Vic S
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Seawater has gold in it, too... somewhere between 2 to 64 PPB.


14 posted on 07/01/2016 5:14:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If the Orlando terrorist does not represent all Muslims, why does he represent all gun-owners?)
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The econuts wil claim it harms all kinds of sea life.


15 posted on 07/01/2016 5:14:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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The biggest problem is that natural gas fired power plants are cheap and easy. Nuclear cannot begin to compete on base price regardless of reasonability of the regulatory stance.

There is no shortage of Uranium for a long long time even assuming 100% electric production by nuclear and that is before you think about recycling spent fuel to recover Pu and U238 for breeding.

16 posted on 07/01/2016 5:17:38 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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Except for the problem that the envirowhackos have made it impossible to construct a nuclear power plant.


17 posted on 07/01/2016 5:19:24 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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Yep, they’ll find some excuse to restrict it.

Of course that’s only if they notice that it undermines the one fatal flaw of the US Government: that it’s lil’red wagon, and I do mean a Red wagon, is hitched to oil.


18 posted on 07/01/2016 5:20:03 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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This should tide us over until fusion reactors are ready in 40 years. ;-) Fusion reactors have been only 40 years away since the 1960’s. Or maybe cold fusion. ;-)


19 posted on 07/01/2016 5:21:37 PM PDT by r_barton (GO TRUMP!!!)
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I tried googling but can’t find out this “replenished” works. Does anyone have anything on this?

It's in the article:

However, seawater concentrations of uranium are controlled by steady-state, or pseudo-equilibrium, chemical reactions between waters and rocks on the Earth, both in the ocean and on land. And those rocks contain 100 trillion tons of uranium. So whenever uranium is extracted from seawater, more is leached from rocks to replace it, to the same concentration. It is impossible for humans to extract enough uranium over the next billion years to lower the overall seawater concentrations of uranium, even if nuclear provided 100% of our energy and our species lasted a billion years.

20 posted on 07/01/2016 5:23:00 PM PDT by justlurking
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