it`s been in the high 90s, low 90s, high 90s and now it`s in the low 90s, where does it go from here?
I doubt that number, but of course depends on the size. I don't want to sound a gloomer, I am just a realist but I did mention it in a similar thread that there is such a thing as peak Uranium. Yes, we can not mine as much uranium as we want, thus we can not build as many nuclear powerstations as we want. Edit: There are 100 operational and 16 non-operational nuclear power plants in the USA, those gave 20% of all electricity back in 1985. So if we multiply that by 5, we get around 500-550 power plants to power America....Let's say add for growth since 1985, 600 would do it...
Good thread, the poster Mazotrade explains everything what is there to be explained. From now on I can just point every ignoramus to this thread. Ironically the thread was closed just right before peak oil (so far) happened, April, 2005.... Edit: I have been reading the thread, the stupidity and ignorance of the deniers is unbelievable... The only encouraging factor is that 2 years later we have less deniers in this similar thread. I guess $100 oil got their attention....
I guess the question now is, how much oil is needed to build those 600 power plants Also, on the subject of Peak Uranium, recent spike in Urainum consumption and mining by China/India led to a dramatic rise in its price...sign of things to come? Although, if we are to go down that road, we should probably expect Peak Natural Gas, Peak Water, Peak Pork Bellies and if we are ever able to produce energy from Outer Space we would enevitable face Peak Outer Space
If you apply continuous consumption to a limited and unreplanishable resource, you get a peak sooner or later. The good news is that pigs are renewable commodities!!!
I have to correct the needed nuclear plants number: I was using old data. Currently only 8% of the electricity is made in nuclear plants. I think the 3500 was reached this way: The world uses 13,000 gigawatts (GW) of total power annually. A typical nuclear power plant produces 1 GW. The USA uses 25% of total worldenergy. 13000/4= 3250
how people see the world, doesn't really change how it is goog is god, they'll give you free energy in no time, only it comes with pay per click ads, like you go to the pump, you have to click some ads here and there before you can start pumping about Moore's law and advancements in computers, those are not inventions, those are advancements and expansions around the same fundamentals through out history there were only a small number of breakthrough inventions, others were just cut and pastes with fancy colors the link you have provided is a promise not an achievement, quantum computers are a promise too, they will be an invention when they are created, but for now it's like talking about star trek i remember how they pictured the future for us when we were in elementary, america this glorious nation will land on mars and build perfect civilizations there, come on man your kids still chew on those plastic mcdonalds shit, what kind of a special future do you see for them, maybe internet addicts if they are lucky regarding the table you have linked to; the numbers have increased mainly due to decrease in infant deaths, not increase in life spans. even if that table of yours is correct, if you look at the column under 'at age 65' for white men you will see that in 1900 they lived up to 77 but in 2000 they lived up to 81, that is not a significant increase, specially if you consider those plastic hearts they get anyhow my point and imo: an intense desire for something and struggling to obtain it does not necessarily mean one will get to that something, though it might increase the possibility to some degree, it will not make it happen by certain just like humans who grow old and gain experience, and eventually die humanity as a whole will grow old though experienced and developed, and will eventually be unable to withstand the natural forces that will bring it's death and extinction