2015 “smashed” 2014’s global temperature record

Re:2015 “smashed” 2014’s global temperature record by nostromo on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @05:58PM (#10942057)

You've misunderstood my comment.

We have 200 years of uranium left at current rates of consumption. But if we replaced all fossil fuels with nuclear, we'd consume 10 times more per year and we'd only have about 20 years of energy available before needing to move on to a new energy source.

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Re:2015 “smashed” 2014’s global temperature record by flubert on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @06:06PM (#10942116)

Okay, it is wikipedia, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor

"Adherents claim that with seawater uranium extraction, there would be enough fuel for breeder reactors to satisfy our energy needs for 5 billion years at 1983's total energy consumption rate, thus making nuclear energy effectively a renewable energy."

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Re:2015 “smashed” 2014’s global temperature record by DasIch on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @06:38PM (#10942307)

There are only four breeder reactors in operation, we'd need a lot more rather quickly for them to be useful.

Also as with all things nuclear there are an awful lot of claims and not a lot of known things here. Nuclear somehow always looks much better in theory than it does in practice.

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Re:2015 “smashed” 2014’s global temperature record by civilian on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @06:32PM (#10942271)

Yeah, breeder reactors are even mentioned in the sciam article that nostromo posted. He's cherry-picking his info.

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Re:2015 “smashed” 2014’s global temperature record by ps4fanboy on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @06:01PM (#10942075)

Uranium exploration is pretty much non existent these days, I would'nt be comfortable saying how much there actually is. Peak oil has been coming for decades but they keep finding it.

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