sicetaitsimple wrote:ABC2019 wrote:And before you bring out nuclear, a little reminder: all U235 reserves represent only 10 years of world consumption,
It's wrong. Or source?
I was talking about 10 years of total energy consumption, not 10 years of nuclear consumption; The estimates are around 100 years of current consumption reserves, but nuclear only provides 5% of the world's energy, so in reality with these figures it's 5 years of world consumption, I put 10 by being generous and counting double in resources by necessarily economic currently.
In short, without breeder reactor, nuclear does not change the problems of energy shortages. With breeding, in theory, the reserves are multiplied by about a hundred, but putting breeders everywhere on the planet, including in poor countries, is completely unrealistic.
The real problems of the coming decades will not come from the climate but from energy resources, and obviously this is aggravated by the fact that many reserves are in countries in the hands of more or less unpredictable dictators, as we see today .