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PhilRelig on April 18, 2006 - 6:42pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
I need some help in convincing a Peak-Oil wary friend of the truth.  His hang-up is nuclear power.  Can anyone direct me to sources - especially ones dealing with the EROEI issue?
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Halfin on April 18, 2006 - 6:56pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Nuclear power is used to generate electricity. But Peak Oil is not really about electricity - it's about transportation. Oil is not much used for electricity generation, and if necessary it can be replaced by coal and other options, including nuclear.

The challenge of Peak Oil is finding a replacement fuel that can support our massive transportation infrastructure, and scaling up the replacement in time to prevent a serious shortfall.

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step back on April 18, 2006 - 7:21pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
You can start at the below hyperlink, but also click the Previous button at the bottom of that page to get better background info re:

 The major problem of nuclear waste is what to do with it.

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step back on April 19, 2006 - 6:37pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
This month's Nature magazine (subscription required) has a couple of articles on assesing the "cost" of nuclear power:

Nuclear power: Chernobyl and the future: when the price is right

Once touted as too cheap to meter, nuclear power has become too costly to build. But the economics may be shifting, finds Jim Giles.

link to editor's notes

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oldhippie on April 18, 2006 - 7:55pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Go to peakoil.com. Top left of the home page there's a little box labelled Editorials & Opinions. Right now it contains a 1st rate article which takes apart nuclear from the viewpoint of ERoEI. Footnoted, thorough, but accessible to laymen.
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BOP on April 19, 2006 - 12:02am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

 Welcome back  ;-)
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fallout on April 19, 2006 - 10:13am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Indeed, welcome back.
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Todd on April 19, 2006 - 12:33am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
There was a long series of posts on obtaining uranium from sea water on the energy resources forum within the last two or so years.  I'm sorry I don't have a specitic link - do a search

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/energyresources

The essential deal was that nets containing a material (can't remember what) would "attract" and concentrate naturally occuring uranium in sea water.  Therefore, ERoEI would be "low."

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