This is a copy/paste of a reply I sent to a friend after he told me why he thought Bush is bad:
Meh nothing wrong with nuclear weapons. To the best of my knowledge, solar cell technology has benefited strongly from militiary/NASA R&D.
Nuclear power is going to be the ONLY source of energy in the globe in 100 years time, and will be heavily sought after in five years time when the world reaches the maximum possible rate of oil extraction from the earth. If you know anything about oil extraction, you’ll know that there are no more oil fields unmined other than those under the ice caps and stuff (which we can’t touch without major risk of flooding the world). This means in five years time, due to the fact that oil isn’t just sitting in barrels underground, no matter how many extracters we use, we have to wait for the oil to flow around to be able to extract it. This will diminish extremely rapidly over the next 20 years, and from then on it’ll be a trickle to 100 years.
There is one solution in which we can superheat underground using massive heat pipes, although this simultaneously requires hardcore energy intensive freezing of the ground around it, using muultiple massive freezing pipes, deep down around the water table to ensure it doesn’t get contaminated. This is at least 10 times more expensive to get oil out, and the technology is just under prototype at the moment, and may not even work.
So basically, in 20-50 years time when we desperately need to completely convert energy grids all around the world to nuclear power then you probably won’t be too concerned about a few nuclear warheads around the place.
For example, the US DOE (Department of Energy) recently diverted billions of dollars of funding from thermoacoustic technology to platinum coating of nuclear (fusion or fission, the bigger one) missiles to allow nukes to be able to be shot from the other side of the world. This might sound bad but it’s not, because they won’t fire it otherwise the entire world will die right. So screw killing everyone, just be happy that people are spending ridiculous amounts of money investing in technology that we need to live in the future. Sure Bush invaded Iraq, and sure it wasn’t because they had nukes, he was just scoping out the amount of oil the Middle Eastern countries have hoarded away, in case the US has to do the same thing. And they do - they have about 30 years of oil hoarded away. You may think this is why oil prices are becoming expensive, but it’s not, it’s just that supply can’t keep up with demand, and them hoarding is relatively insignificant.
So my point is, we have bigger things to be worried about than greenhouse gas, war, famine, etc. Because when we run out of oil, the only way to get more is to use militiary force to invade other countries supplies. This means electing crazy mofo presidents and politicians that will do this, and don’t operate logically. The general public will do this, because no one understands that we can’t actually extract oil any faster than what we will be now, and in 5 years time.
I have 6 documentaries about this peak oil crisis, as soon as I get a DVD burner I’ll give them all to everyone.
Cheers,
Tom Bammann
Thomas Vial wrote:
> Corey,
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> You have got to be joking. Surely you don�t seriously believe that Bush is making any sort of positive impact in the world.
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> How come the US is forcing North Korea to re-join the anti Nuclear Weapons treaty whilst the US themselves haven�t upheld any of there own agreements in the Treaty.
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> The treaty states that all members who currently have Nuclear Weapons are to stop creating new weapons and start working on total disarmament. All the US have done is destroy their old missiles and continue to work on the creation of new more efficient and powerful nuclear weapons.
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> And Bush is telling North Korea to stop building new Nuclear Weapons ???!!!!!!!
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> Regards
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> Tom
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> Mechatronic Engineer
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