[Rockhounds] Was: The Bakken Formation - Now: renewable energy

[Axel Emmermann]

Indeed Margaret!

I heard about technology being ready to use thorium instead of
uranium/plutonium in nuclear fission reactors. Thorium would be safer and
the fission products would cool much faster.
You cannot use thorium for weapons-grade fission material so there would be
no objections against "rogue-states" using it.
As things are now: can we really demand that India and China limit energy
consumption while we drive around in our monster-wheel SUVs?

Thorium is abundant enough...

Cheers
Axel

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com 
> [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] Namens Margaret Malm
> Verzonden: zaterdag 19 juli 2008 18:06
> Aan: 'Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem 
> collectors'
> Onderwerp: RE: [Rockhounds] The Bakken Formation - An Interesting Read
> 
> Glenn;
> Factual or not, the facts still remain that we *really* do 
> need to get into renewable resources in a big way. If that 
> oil is 2 miles down, and under the Rocky Mts. to boot, it's 
> going to cost a great deal more to tap it (to say nothing of 
> the environmental damage),  than it would be to simply use 
> our renewable resources. And renewable resources do much much 
> less damage to our planet's atmosphere. 
> My opinion.
> But this may not be a suitable subject for this website, so 
> perhaps this discussion should end here.
> 
> Margaret
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com
> [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] On Behalf Of 
> Glenn Wimpee
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 2:03 PM
> To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
> Subject: [Rockhounds] The Bakken Formation - An Interesting Read
> 
> Ever heard of the Bakken Formation? GOOGLE it. I did, and it 
> BLEW my mind.
> The U.S. Geological Service issued a report in April ('08) 
> that only scientists and oilmen/women knew was coming, but 
> man was it big. It was a revised report (hadn't been updated 
> since '95) on how much oil was in this area of the western 
> 2/3 of North Dakota; western South Dakota; and extreme 
> eastern Montana ... check THIS out!
>  
>  
> And this:
>  
>  
> U.S. Oil Discovery- Largest Reserve in the World! Stansberry 
> Report Online -
> 4/20/2006 Hidden 10,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky 
> Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world 
> is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. They reported this stunning 
> news: We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other 
> proven reserves on earth. 
>  
>  
> As much as google has on these, I suspect the reports are factual.
>  
> Can we drill ourselves out of this energy and economic crisis?
>  
> Ya'll have any comments?
> Glenn 
> 
> 
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