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Re: The Limits To Growth



John McCarthy <jmc@Steam.stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
> ..  In fact there is as much energy
> available as mankind is likely to want.  Bernard Cohen has calculated
> that the uranium  from the sea at reasonable extraction costs can
> supply humanity for 5 billion years.

Since environmentalists are so deadset against us adding uranium to the
sea, I wonder how they'll react to us trying to take some out.  I can
already hear the calls for impact studies to ensure no fish will be harmed
by lower uranium levels....

--
Mike Asher
masher@tusc.net

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand
miles from the cornfield." 
Eisenhower




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