The US may only have 45 billion barrels in reserve but has “technically recoverable” oil reserves of 1.6 trillion barrels. It is estimated the US actually has over 2 trillion barrels of oil but some of that is not recoverable.
In addition to that, the US has hundreds of years’ worth of coal.
This is what 44 years of spent nuclear fuel looks like, remember 96% of that is still fuel when reprocessed each gram of that reprocessed spent fuel is 83.6 gigajoules worth of energy. One gigajoules is 277.78 kilowatt hours. That’s per GRAM.
The coal ash pile to generate 45 years worth of equivalent energy stacked in the same surface area as those casks would be 14,000+ feet high yeah read that again and get it through your coal brain coal is never the answer once humans split the atom nothing else matters except geothermal energy,and storage, solar in the deserts and wind in the high and low Hadley wind cells that’s it those are all thousands and millions of exajoules worth of energy forever they can never run out based on physics.
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