Comments on: Unlikely Agreement: Peak Oil http://www.murkyview.com/archives/2006/03/21/unlikely-agreement-peak-oil/ Perspectives on Media, Climate, Energy, Politics... in Port Alberni, BC, Canada, the World Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:51:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: David Billington http://www.murkyview.com/archives/2006/03/21/unlikely-agreement-peak-oil/comment-page-1/#comment-4930 David Billington Wed, 22 Mar 2006 05:25:23 +0000 http://www.murkyview.com/archives/2006/03/21/unlikely-agreement-peak-oil/#comment-4930 Chris, Hoover Dam was built by the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, not by the US Army Corps of Engineers. The uranium projection in the USACE paper gives the wrong impression that there is a real supply problem and that causes me to wonder about the other projections. Here is a link to a paper on uranium supply: http://www.uic.com.au/nip75.htm Although we're not going to run out of uranium, I don't think nuclear power can sustain our way of life in the long run, and fossil fuels certainly can't. There is no alternative to renewable energy unless exotic new sources (eg. zero-point energy) become practical. Chris,

Hoover Dam was built by the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation, not by the US Army Corps of Engineers.

The uranium projection in the USACE paper gives the wrong impression that there is a real supply problem and that causes me to wonder about the other projections. Here is a link to a paper on uranium supply:

http://www.uic.com.au/nip75.htm

Although we’re not going to run out of uranium, I don’t think nuclear power can sustain our way of life in the long run, and fossil fuels certainly can’t. There is no alternative to renewable energy unless exotic new sources (eg. zero-point energy) become practical.

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