Who Will Win?
Okay well now that I have lured you in again I will sadly admit that I lied. No, this will not be an ultimate showdown. Maybe later sometime down the line. Also what truly is winning? Coal is currently holding the market, but am I expecting nuclear to make shocking upset sometime down the line. Of course, I am. I wouldn't be a nuke if I wasn't. So let's have a fair match and make sure nuclear wins. I mean we were bound to win. Mwhaha. I hope to actually compare some different facts than what is normally suggested in favor of nuclear. Yes, we are much more energy efficient. Yes, we are cleaner. Yes, we are safer. Please reader, if you do not already know this I hope you will look it up. There are numerous sources that confirm this. But for a post or two I will go into possible ways I would coach "radioactive champ" if I was in his corner.
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Go the Distance
"Alright champ, all I'm asking for you is to go the distance. That oily chump over there can't go the 12 rounds aka 200 years like you can. Just outlast him and let him get what's coming to him" says the coolest boxing coach ever. There are estimates out there that coal may run out somewhere in the next 100 years. I guess for clarity I will state that this is off current known supply and assumes a compensating demand, as the other fossil fuels run out the usage of coal will increase and we will run out of it sooner. But truthfully its gonna run out sometime. The article took a guess and shot for 2088 as the magical year when nuclear's enemy (competitor) bites the dust. But it didn't account for the increase in demand due to the population growth of the world and technological growth. It could be sooner. Also, it didn't account for the unknown future coal or some other fossil fuel pocket that will extend these decays, ever so slightly.
Coach time again. Coach: "So with efficiency, safety, and cleanliness were a better fighter. We have all we need to take this fight. But we also can go the distance (oh for all you non-boxing/non-rocky fans that means to go for the full length of the match)." There are sources that state we should have enough Uranium for the next 200 years (though this doesn't include increasing demand and possible nuclear growth). "The reigning champ (oil) is a fake that bribed and corrupted his way to the top. He has all the fans now currently because of how corrupt he is and how bad he made us look. What's a possible winning strategy then? We could just jab every now and then mainly dodge (stick and move). Then wait till he runs out a steam and KO's himself. Over this fight of attrition the fans are sure to see who the real champ is and fans (public) will come straight to us."
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Cool blog! I wonder if coal will truly be at a state of running out in 100 years, even if you account for population growth. But in whatever case, nuclear needs to get the knock out punches early to be in a state of stability when our country (and hopefully the world) decides to take a step forward and help the nuclear industry more than they have been in the past.
ReplyDeletevery clever! i enjoyed reading. It's a little bit scary to think of what people are going to do when we ACTUALLY start running out of these things. If we only have 100 years of coal and 200 years of Uranium, at some point we need to start coming up with other viable options.
ReplyDeleteYeah this was all supposed to be a sort of comical way to present those little facts. Hopefully this does not become reality. There would definitely be a big impact on the world if things played out this way. Thus, I believe your completely right.
ReplyDeleteI really liked how you incorporated the fun and humor into your blog post! It was really interesting how you took the coal vs. nuclear debate even farther than the cleaner, safer, better thing too. We've mentioned in our blogs and in class quite a few times all of those things, but you took it much more long term which was really cool to read about.
ReplyDeleteI need to watch Rocky again..
ReplyDelete200 years of Uranium doesn't sound like a whole lot. Thankfully our current reactors can trypically be retrofitted to use a Thorium MOX fuel, which is more abundant. Also reprocessing. Also in 20 years, who knows what crazy technology we'll have, we'll probably all be living inside of computers wired directly into the sun by that point.
That second wind Waste reprocessing and MOX fuels is really interesting to me. I hope the US gets into them in the near future, it seems like it is the way to go to take care of the downside of the nuclear industry.
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