ICBM's for your own cities? great, destroy yourselves. if you do manage to kill all 'liberals', you will then die out in a decade because everyone will be wanting everything for themselves, thinking resources are infinite.
Hmmmm.... no. ...( 1 month ago by petehuss)
Hmmmm.... no. Certainly anything that helps will help, but this idea is up there with 'if we only used hemp oil....' in terms of corresponding to reality.
Crude prices DOWN ...( 1 month ago by eksdem)
Crude prices DOWN today.
Even if he's a ...( 1 month ago by phonono)
Even if he's a technical trader doesn't change the fact that he's a douchebag. And yes private property is good. Especially when I buy American property and I use it for my own personal interest.
"Assholes like him ...( 1 month ago by phonono)
"Assholes like him have all the money"
Well he does not have MY money. I bought gold like a decade ago, and now i have enough money to buy this 'terracrotta' dude's asshole. But i won't since it's probably as artificial as his tan and hair are fake. Maybe i should send him money so he can buy more cocaine.
Yes agreed, he ...( 1 month ago by olliestrick)
Yes agreed, he appears a d-bag.
"Especially when I buy American property and I use it for my own personal interest."
You buy personal property for your own personal interest? Novel.
Pe-riceless. Love ...( 1 month ago by badnewswade)
Pe-riceless. Love the look on the spiv's face when Simmonds gets into his stride.
joe is gonna eat ...( 1 month ago by mpower6428)
joe is gonna eat them words
What a repulsive ...( 1 month ago by DFORCE1969)
What a repulsive bunch of corp-bots!
Simmons is wise though.
Yes, liberals like ...( 1 month ago by drmodestoesq)
Yes, liberals like Jimmy Carter who imposed a politically suicidal 55 mph speed limit. Who put in place massively funded alternative energy programs. Who instituted high CAFE standards for automobiles. Who put Paul Volker in charge of the fed who cured the stagflation of the 70s. Who sent the CIA into Afganistan to bleed the Red Army dry and bankrupt the Soviet Union along with the collapse of oil prices that were a direct result of his policies. More of Reagan/Bush maxing out the plastic.
"And that's when ...( 4 weeks ago by soylentgreenb)
"And that's when you're going to have angry, freezing, jobless Americans rioting in the streets."
Heating oil is easily replaced by (admittedly scarce) natural gas or electric heat pumps powered by abundant fuel sources such as coal, uranium and hydro.
Personal transportation is harder. First you'll see car pooling, scooters, bikes and tele commuting. Later you might see emergency bus lines and 4x10 hour work weeks, possibly even sleeping over at work(only one commute per week).
Only due to people ...( 4 weeks ago by Golgo13ThePro)
Only due to people not doing it.
Hemp oil is unrealistic because it's a plant, has nowhere near the energy content of petrol, would take a continent the size of Africa just to satisfy US fuel demand, and would take a great deal of energy just to process and harvest. However, there's nothing super unrealistic about having properly inflated tires, cleaning out your air filter, and driving 55mph.
Those 3 things make DRASTIC differences in fuel efficiency. Compound that over millions of autos.
Most northern ...( 4 weeks ago by Golgo13ThePro)
Most northern households are on gas & having problems already, so that's not really a solution.
Nearly all major hydro prospect sites are being utilized & it's dependent on water levels/rainfall.
Reactor requirements for CURRENT reators are already 2x global uranium production, so that's not a solution.
We have lots of coal, 1/2 of which is believed recoverable, but at current low annual growth rates it's expected to last 1 generation. Ramp up consumption and it depletes even faster.
CHICAGO has its' ...( 4 weeks ago by garyowen4ever)
CHICAGO has its' share of traders and speculators, being home to a number of legendary exchanges. But even before the speculator induced energy rape of mainstreet's wallet and purse, said traders kept to themselves, had their own jackson and lasalle bars etc. NOW IF I WERE COMING TO CHICAGO FROM WALL STREET AND WERE AN OIL TRADER - SPECULATOR, i wouldn't be braggin about it in a bar that was off the wacker, lasalle, jackson corridor.
"Most northern ...( 4 weeks ago by soylentgreenb)
"Most northern households are on gas & having problems already, so that's not really a solution."
Less of a problem than oil. Also, heat pumps.
"Reactor requirements for CURRENT reators are already 2x global uranium production, so that's not a solution."
Only because HEU from dismantled russian thermonuclear warheads and depleted uranium to downblend it with is dirt cheap and it depressed the price of uranium for many years. There's no shortage of idle uranium mines waiting for sunnier days.
Uranium is still ...( 4 weeks ago by soylentgreenb)
Uranium is still hysterically cheap and has not yet recovered to its old price before we started burning russian nukes in our reactors. For $65 you get 1 pound of yellowcake, with the heat content of 50-100 barrels of oil(5 000 barrels in a breeder).
There's no technical problem with breeder reactors; they just make no financial sense when yellowcake is barely a few percent of amortized cost of operating a reactor.
A breeder has to ...( 4 weeks ago by Golgo13ThePro)
A breeder has to run on HEU for a decade before it has bred enough U233 to start a normal cycle. So it takes around 100 PWRs, 400 tons of HEU, and loads of thorium just to even start the cycle.
After a decade, we're able to refill them with Th+U233, and then they'll breed at 1.02 (if we're optimistic). So we're looking at another fuel reload after 3.5 decades - effectively 200 reactors after 35 years.
So this is what we ...( 4 weeks ago by Golgo13ThePro)
So this is what we have:
X years - conversion of 100 reactors
1 decade - ignition of 100 reactors
3.5 decades - 200 reactors
3.5 decades - 400 reactors (approx. what we have now)
3.5 decades - 800 reactors
etc.
A simple back of the envelope calculation makes it readily apparent that we can forget breeders. We need mo re than a century just to get to the point where they can produce more than we have currently.
This is the most ...( 4 weeks ago by MYFreeSpeach4U)
This is the most lame brain BS, You are being told what to expect, There is a way to stop it and get to return, All the news net works want you to think in there way,
I should have ...( 3 weeks ago by FrenchRome)
I should have thought it simple to 'correct' the oil price.
In the UK, if people compoletely stopped shopping at BP, the price would drop as the government would be forced to cut the fuel tax.
If you feel bad about this then you simply make a commitment to buy only BP fuel after the price cut.
In the longer temr I look forward to new engine technologies such as those being worked upon by Honda since the 1980's which the Thatcher government rejected.
lol.. I like the ...( 3 weeks ago by Matt007b)
lol.. I like the look of the hosts and co-hosts as this guy talks about the total american disaster.
(I do agree we should get completely off oil asap but wow negative)
"A breeder has to ...( 3 weeks ago by soylentgreenb)
"A breeder has to run on HEU for a decade before it has bred enough U233 to start a normal cycle."
We were talking about uranium, not thorium.
Even if we were talking about thorium you don't need HEU; plutonium from so called waste will do fine.
"X years - ...( 3 weeks ago by soylentgreenb)
"X years - conversion of 100 reactors
1 decade - ignition of 100 reactors
3.5 decades - 200 reactors
3.5 decades - 400 reactors (approx. what we have now)
3.5 decades - 800 reactors"
I wasn't talking about thorium. Even if I were: Plutonium. Enrich more uranium.
Simmons is wise though.
Hemp oil is unrealistic because it's a plant, has nowhere near the energy content of petrol, would take a continent the size of Africa just to satisfy US fuel demand, and would take a great deal of energy just to process and harvest. However, there's nothing super unrealistic about having properly
inflated tires, cleaning out your air filter, and driving 55mph. Those 3 things make DRASTIC differences in fuel efficiency. Compound that over millions of autos.
Nearly all major hydro prospect sites are being utilized & it's dependent on water levels/rainfall.
Reactor requirements for CURRENT reators are already 2x global uranium production, so that's not a solution. We have lots of coal, 1/2 of which is believed recoverable, but at current low annual growth rates it's expected to last 1 generation. Ramp up consumption and it depletes even faster.
After a decade, we're able to refill them with Th+U233, and then they'll breed at 1.02 (if we're optimistic). So we're looking at another fuel reload after 3.5 decades - effectively 200 reactors after 35 years.
X years - conversion of 100 reactors 1 decade - ignition of 100 reactors 3.5 decades - 200 reactors 3.5 decades - 400 reactors (approx. what we have now) 3.5 decades - 800 reactors etc. A simple back of the envelope calculation makes it readily apparent that we can forget breeders. We need mo
re than a century just to get to the point where they can produce more than we have currently.
In the UK, if people compoletely stopped shopping at BP, the price would drop as the government would be forced to cut the fuel tax.
If you feel bad about this then you simply make a commitment to buy only BP fuel after the price cut.
In the longer temr I look forward to new engine technologies such as those being worked upon by Honda since the 1980's which the Thatcher government rejected.
(I do agree we should get completely off oil asap but wow negative)