12-23-2009, 04:04 PM
Doc wrote:
[quote=Acer]
Electricity is the easy part. We can use nukes for that.
What kind of nukes?
We're running out of uranium. Civilian supplies should be exhausted by 2013.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24414/
Fusion or so-called breeder reactors. Any material can be used. Heard on NPR a few weeks ago that a laser has been developed that can start the reaction. The scientist interviewed thinks he can have a working reactor in five years.