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Friday, January 27, 2006

Something to think about

I am not one to lend credibility to any sort of "divine plan", but sometimes you make realizations about things that are just plain scary coincidental. Let me just state the facts, and you can make what you want of it.

The human race has been using fossil fuel of some sort for centuries, culminating in our current age where oil is king. Whatever the estimates are, there is certainly a limited supply of oil for us to extract energy out of. Eventually we will run out, and it's not going to be in the far off future. I would expect to hear that most major oil reserves are tapped out before I expire. This being the case, we will need a new easy source of energy. Where do we find that energy? Well everything that we have looked at so far has too many drawbacks for a large conversion in the industry. One of the largest considerations in looking for a fuel source is the energy density of the fuel. Fossil fuels have a very high energy density, and that's why we have used them for so long. Alas, the planet is filled with huge reserves of fossil fuels. Thanks mother Earth! Once they run out, we'll find that choosing the lesser of all evils leaves us with nuclear power as the winner. Why? The energy density is much greater than even fossil fuels. One of the major problems with nuclear power is finding clean fuel. The best of all available fuels is Helium-3. H-3 is rare on Earth, so that's a problem. Well luckily that large supply of fossil fuel we had was just enough to get us into space. Cuz guess what! The moon is chock full of H-3! Go figure.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17943650-13762,00.html

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