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by Targol » 02/08/06, 15:54

yes, if I know the "badger" mode well, it is because I also heard it more often than I did (it or one of its many variants)
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by Woodcutter » 03/08/06, 12:16

Apparently, the "nuclear lobby" is not yet powerful enough ...
http://www.actu-environnement.com/ae/news/1871.php4

However as a joke, our current MEDD is not bad ... : roll:
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by Targol » 03/08/06, 13:08

Woodcutter wrote:However as a joke, our current MEDD is not bad ... : roll:


It is still far from reaching the abysmal level of Bachelot.
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by Christophe » 03/08/06, 13:35

Quiz: which do you think was the most effective during the last 20 years or rather the least ineffective? : Cheesy:
(I don't have the answer, it's rather a survey that I'm launching ...)
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by Targol » 03/08/06, 13:44

With a ladle, I would say Voynet but she intervened in a context where we left her more room than her successors for reasons of "plural left" (it was necessary to give one or two bones to gnaw at the greens to have their voting instructions).

Now, in relation to the issues, as long as the environment remains a minor subject in politics, what will be done will always be far below what should be done.
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by freddau » 03/08/06, 14:39

http://www.courrierinternational.com/ar ... j_id=65124

ENERGY • The uranium rush has started

He was scorned, here he is wanted. Many governments plan to build power plants and prices are soaring. And we see new producers and brokers flourish…

While it stalled around $ 7 a kilo [about 5,60 euros] at the start of the millennium, the spot price of uranium has increased more than six-fold since then, standing at $ 45,50 [ 35 euros] in mid-July. A surge which is explained by the eternal law of supply and demand: while the supply decreases rapidly, the demand for nuclear fuel starts up again.
Since 1986 and the Chernobyl disaster, uranium was no longer popular. But the beginning of the disgrace dates more precisely to 1979, with the accident of fusion of the American power station of Three Mile Island, in Pennsylvania. Until that date, mining operators were doing everything to increase their production capacities in anticipation of a nuclear energy boom. After Three Mile Island, many power companies have canceled their orders for nuclear reactors. However, rather than paying the penalties required for canceling uranium purchase contracts, they calculated that it would be more profitable for them to continue to acquire and store the ore.

Recycled Russian warheads improve supply

After Chernobyl, uranium exploration recorded a sharp slowdown. In the mid-1990s, the spot uranium price reached such a low level that production in operating mines fell to 50% of demand. Electricity producers can, however, rely on their stocks to cope with the shortage. In addition, at that time, the dismantling and reprocessing of Russian nuclear warheads provided 10% of the demand.
But today, stocks are starting to run out as demand picks up. Not to mention that the Russian authorities have announced that they will stop transforming their nuclear warheads into combustible uranium as soon as their non-proliferation agreement expires in 2013. However, by then, everything indicates that the reactors will multiply, several countries having, like the United Kingdom, opted for nuclear power as an alternative source of electricity. In addition to the 441 reactors currently in operation, twenty-seven are under construction and thirty-eight are planned worldwide. Most of these new facilities will be in Asia. Within five years, stocks will no longer meet more than a quarter of expected uranium demand. According to the World Nuclear Association, demand should drop from 77 tonnes this year to nearly 000 tonnes by 85. However Merrill Lynch expects that supply will remain insufficient at least until 000 Charles Scorer, director of the broker NUFCOR Uranium, goes in the same direction: "With insufficient exploration and declining stocks, the market is likely to be tight for the next ten years." Such a context explains the surge in spot prices, which itself prompted the operators to increase production and relaunched exploration worldwide.

Significant quantities remain to be discovered

The uranium market is dominated by Australia and Canada. Australia has the largest deposits in the world, with 40% of known reserves, but the largest producer is Canada. The leading player in the sector is the Canadian company Cameco, followed closely by Rio Tinto, which exploits deposits in Australia and Namibia. The ore is also present in Kazakhstan, Eastern Europe and in several African countries including Zambia and South Africa.
Exploration companies are also multiplying. In Canada and Australia, there are 150 companies, up from 40 a year ago. As Preston Chiaro, Rio Tinto's energy director, observes, “we are witnessing a massive influx of new players on the market, and all are looking to make their mark”.
The general attitude towards uranium started to change about two years ago, when some environmentalists became more in favor of nuclear energy as an alternative to fossil fuels. One tonne of uranium generates as much energy as 116 tonnes of coal, without emitting greenhouse gases. With the return of nuclear power, demand is expected to grow by 000% per year. Until supply catches up with demand, prices will continue to rise. Investors believe that the still incomplete exploration means that significant quantities remain to be discovered. And we can also count on future improvements in mining and energy production techniques. Charles Scorer is delighted. “Uranium, he says, is entering its first phase of industrial production.”

Cosima Marriner
The Daily Telegraph

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From 2010, Australia will export 20 tonnes of uranium per year to China. The Middle Kingdom, where nuclear represents 000% of the energy produced, plans to build 2 new power plants by 30. The agreement between the two countries, signed in April 2020, guarantees that the Chinese government not use the ore for military purposes.
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by pollux » 03/08/06, 19:29

if I understood everything correctly, after the oil spike, the uranium spike ....?

I do not know whether to rejoice, but it does not bother me as long as this salleté becomes rare. the sooner we exhaust it, the faster we will get out.

it will become urgent to find an alternative energy and of comparable power, because asia is certainly not going to adopt the energy decrease, and I doubt that europe and the usa will do it (surely not the usa anyway .. .).

does anyone have news from zero point energy extraction? is it really a utopia? is there only renewable energy as an alternative energy source to fossils and fissiles?

Pollux.
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by Woodcutter » 03/08/06, 19:41

Christophe wrote:Quiz: which do you think was the most effective during the last 20 years or rather the least ineffective? : Cheesy:
(I don't have the answer, it's rather a survey that I'm launching ...)
Chépas ... Corinne Lepage?
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by lau » 03/08/06, 22:27

A piece of information that you must have all heard: by 2007 and to offset an ever-increasing demand for electrical energy, France will restart some oil-fired power plants ... we are not stopping progress, I am flabbergasted : Evil:

to respond to pollux on the energy of the zero point: some sneer, even on this forum, and however more and more scientists begin to admit the possibility of the existence and the provision of the energy of space in each square cm of all the universe, an energy without limit and free flirting with l anti-gravity.
Small problem: the recognition of this one and the production of unitary energy overhaul quite a lot of laws of current physics and makes very difficult the establishment of equation demonstrating the effective production of energy of space by devices with magnets or vortex effect for example.
Second, the provision of autonomous devices of this type for individuals and businesses would be a fatal blow to the economic market of industrialized countries.
Unfortunately, I believe that the energy revolution is likely to happen in chaos .. I hope I am wrong.
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by Christophe » 03/08/06, 22:49

It's not that we laugh about it but by dint of seeing, reading, hearing hundreds of inventor, invention or plans which are more wacky one than the other but especially whose NO proto WORKS. Well there is something to become septic and ricainner right?

So by dint of trying to look for free energy we miss out on another potentially very important (infinite) "source" of energy: energy savings and renewable energy ... And that's it grâve and I would not be surprised that certain "legends" of free energy machines are voluntarily created and put on the net by the energy lobbies ... just to make us "dream" ...

Example of a mystical "surunitary" machine:
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